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Fedora 27 : firefox (2017-aca8228007)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105953

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to Firefox 57 a.k.a. Quantum

This update may break your installed extension, please see this Fedora Magazine article for details :

https://fedoramagazine.org/firefox-57-coming-soon-quantum-leap/

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

Solution

Update the affected firefox package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-aca8228007

https://fedoramagazine.org/firefox-57-coming-soon-quantum-leap/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105953

File Name: fedora_2017-aca8228007.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2017

Reference Information