When manipulating the selection node cache, an attacker may have been able to cause unexpected behavior, potentially leading to an exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 131.0.3.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - When manipulating the selection node cache, an attacker may have been able to cause unexpected behavior,     potentially leading to an exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 131.0.3. (CVE-2024-9936)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the b73d1f2a-96de-11ef-9e71-00d8612f03c8 advisory.

    security@mozilla.org reports:
    When manipulating the selection node cache, an attacker may have             been able to cause unexpected behavior, potentially leading to an             exploitable crash.  This vulnerability affects Firefox < 131.0.3.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the FreeBSD security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7078-1 advisory.

    Atte Kettunen discovered that Firefox did not properly validate before inserting ranges into the selection     node cache. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary     code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 131.0.3. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2024-53 advisory.

  - When manipulating the selection node cache, an attacker may have been able to cause unexpected behavior,     potentially leading to an exploitable crash. (CVE-2024-9936)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 131.0.3. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2024-53 advisory.

  - When manipulating the selection node cache, an attacker may have been able to cause unexpected behavior,     potentially leading to an exploitable crash. (CVE-2024-9936)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
252971	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-9936	Nessus	Misc.	medium
210007	FreeBSD : librewolf -- Undefined behavior in selection node cache (b73d1f2a-96de-11ef-9e71-00d8612f03c8)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
209521	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerability (USN-7078-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
208946	Mozilla Firefox < 131.0.3	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	medium
208945	Mozilla Firefox < 131.0.3	Nessus	Windows	medium

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