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Mozilla Firefox < 34.0

medium Nessus Plugin ID 279129

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Synopsis

A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 34.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2014-90 advisory.

 - jemalloc poisoning plus Apple uninitialized variable usage triggers keylogging in /tmp/ on OSX 10.10(CVE-2014-1595) (CVE-2014-1595)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 34.0 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2014-90/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 279129

File Name: macos_firefox_34_0.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 12/18/2025

Updated: 12/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1595

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Mozilla Firefox

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1595

IAVA: 2014-A-0182-S