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Fedora 27 : firefox (2018-276558ff6f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106025

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to 57.0.4

- Security fixes to address the Meltdown and Spectre timing attacks - https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations
 -landing-new-class-timing-attack/

 - Require new nss 3.34 (fixed rhbz#1531031)

 - Disabled ARM on all Fedoras due to rhbz#1523912

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-2018-276558ff6f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106025

File Name: fedora_2018-276558ff6f.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: 1/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2018

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