Fedora 13 : firefox-3.6.14-1.fc13 / galeon-2.0.7-37.fc13 / gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-26.fc13 / etc (2011-2447)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52572

Synopsis

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

Description

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.6.14, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories :

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox36.html#f irefox3.6.14

Update also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against new version of Firefox / XULRunner.

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2f087a83

http://www.nessus.org/u?cd9a069d

http://www.nessus.org/u?5bb77cc9

http://www.nessus.org/u?cfd0d1ff

http://www.nessus.org/u?5cd75bcd

http://www.nessus.org/u?367b4e82

http://www.nessus.org/u?d0683a99

http://www.nessus.org/u?600f6c49

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52572

File Name: fedora_2011-2447.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/8/2011

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: 5.9

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:galeon, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-python2-extras, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-web-photo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mozvoikko, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-gtk2-mozembed, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xulrunner, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2011

Reference Information

BID: 46643, 46645, 46647, 46648, 46650, 46651, 46652, 46660, 46661, 46663

FEDORA: 2011-2447