Fedora 17 : firefox-19.0.2-1.fc17 / thunderbird-17.0.4-1.fc17 / xulrunner-19.0.2-1.fc17 (2013-3696)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65559

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Security-driven release, see details in the associated security advisory:
https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected firefox, thunderbird and / or xulrunner packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ec16fc43

http://www.nessus.org/u?35000bee

http://www.nessus.org/u?cefce2a7

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65559

File Name: fedora_2013-3696.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xulrunner, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2013

Reference Information

BID: 58391

FEDORA: 2013-3696