Anyway, the reason I want to do this, is so I can wright a script to see what version of Firefox is running. This is because I do a lot of server hardening and to fix certain CVE hits you need to upgrade to a certain version of Firefox.
For example to fix CVE-2013-0787 you need to have Firefox updated to one of the versions below.
Firefox 19.0.2 or later
Firefox ESR 17.0.4 or later
I'm sure you can now see my issue.
I don't see any reason why you need to specifically detect the string "ESR" in the version. There is no 17.0.4 non-ESR version. What that CVE identifier means is that the Firefox version must be a version 17 release with minor.point release version of at least 0.4. Or, the version must be 19.0.2 or greater, which includes 20.x.y, 21.x.y, etc. Note that this means that there is no version 18.x.y which satisfies this condition.
If you wanted to check this programatically, the following pseudo code would do it:
Hi,
How to write a script for finding out firefox version in our linux machine?
Could you please share the same? I am using Red Hat Linux machine.
Thanks,
Kammy (2 Replies)
i have a program writing in PRO C which currently running in unix version 8 tie with oracle 8i, but in the future company gonna migrate this OS to version 9.
Anything i have to prepare for my PRO C program to run in unix version 9? or anything would that impact my program couldn't run well?
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Would like to confirm the ff. I got confused actually with the version I needed to download that will work on glassfish 3.0.1
a. Debian Squeeze (HP DL360). Need to use java version6
On Debian, I did apt-get install sun-java6-jdk. So when I check it's
java version "1.6.0_22"
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Guys,
How to find OS version and firmware version in LINUX?
Like in AIX.
uname -a will show me the version 5.3, 6.1,7.1.
lsmcode -c will show me - system firmware image as SF240_417.
What are the similar commands in Linux.
I checked uname -a and cat /etc/release.
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I have a unique situation, I have a RHEL OS but also a file path that has a OS image (it is not the image running on the machine) if I run fire fox -version it will give me the version of the actively installed FF however I need to know if the version of FF sitting in the non active path is the... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
firefox
firefox(1) User Commands firefox(1)NAME
firefox - Firefox for Sun Java Desktop System
SYNOPSIS
firefox [options ... ] [url]
DESCRIPTION
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages
over other browsers, such as the ability to block pop-up windows.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-height value Set the height of startup window to value.
-h or -help Display the help message.
-width value Set the width of startup window to value.
-v or -version Display the version message.
-P profile Start with the profile named: profile.
-ProfileManager Start with profile manager.
-UILocale locale Start with the UI Locale listed: locale.
-safe-mode Disables extensions and themes for this session.
-jsconsole Open the JavaScript console.
-browser Open a browser window.
-setDefaultBrowser Set this app as the default browser.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Firefox
example% firefox
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
1 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/firefox
Executable for Firefox application
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox
User configuration files for Firefox
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWfirefox |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
For more information about firefox, please refer to http://www.mozilla.org/firefox
Refer to Help->Help Contents for more information.
NOTES
Updated by Evan Yan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.
SunOS 5.11 10 Jul 2008 firefox(1)