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Fedora 28 : mozilla-privacy-badger (2018-bb965553f9)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120742

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fixed security issues with HTML5 local storage tracking detection as well as SoundCloud widget replacement.
 Thanks again to Cure53 for discovering and reporting these vulnerabilities.

 - Improved Facebook link unwrapping; now enabled on the Facebook Onion domain

 - Improved translations (Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Ukrainian)

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 mozilla-privacy-badger package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-bb965553f9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120742

File Name: fedora_2018-bb965553f9.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mozilla-privacy-badger

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2018

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