Fedora 18 : firefox-19.0.2-1.fc18 / thunderbird-17.0.4-1.fc18 / xulrunner-19.0.2-1.fc18 (2013-3718)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65539

Synopsis

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

Description

Security-driven release, see details in the associated security advisory:
https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html

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 firefox, thunderbird and / or xulrunner packages.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/

http://www.nessus.org/u?2da23abe

http://www.nessus.org/u?5c412cec

http://www.nessus.org/u?71969324

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65539

File Name: fedora_2013-3718.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xulrunner, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2013

Reference Information

BID: 58391

FEDORA: 2013-3718