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,
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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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firefox
FIREFOX(1) Linux User's Manual FIREFOX(1)NAME
firefox - a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser
SYNOPSIS
firefox [OPTIONS] [URL]
DESCRIPTION
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.
USAGE
firefox is a simple shell script that will set up the environment for the actual executable.
OPTIONS
A summary of the options supported by firefox is included below.
GTK options
--gdk-debug=FLAGS Gdk debugging flags to set
--gdk-no-debug=FLAGS
Gdk debugging flags to unset
--gtk-debug=FLAGS
Gtk+ debugging flags to set
--gtk-no-debug=FLAGS
Gtk+ debugging flags to unset
--gtk-module=MODULE
Load an additional Gtk module
X11 options
--display=DISPLAY
X display to use
--sync Make X calls synchronous
--no-xshm
Don't use X shared memory extension
--xim-preedit=STYLE
--xim-status=STYLE
--g-fatal-warnings
Make all warnings fatal
Firefox options
-h, -help
Show summary of options.
-height value
Set height of startup window to value.
-width value
Set width of startup window to value.
-v, -version
Print /usr/bin/firefox-bin version.
-CreateProfile profile
Create profile.
-P profile
Start with profile.
-ProfileManager
Start with profile manager.
-UILocale lang-region
Start with lang-region resources.
-contentLocale lang-region
Start with lang-region resources.
-remote command
Execute command in an already running Firefox process. For more info, see: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html
-no-remote
Don't try to control an already running instance.
-jsconsole
Start with Javascript Console
-chrome url
Load the specified chrome.
-new-window url
Open URL in a new window if Firefox is already running.
-new-tab url
Open URL in a new tab if Firefox is already running.
-preferences
Open Firefox preferences menu.
-safe-mode
Disables extensions and themes for this session.
FILES /usr/bin/firefox - shell script wrapping firefox
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox - firefox executable
VERSION
3.0
BUGS
To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
SEE ALSO mozilla(1)AUTHORS
The Mozilla Organization
http://www.mozilla.org/about.html
firefox January 04, 2006 FIREFOX(1)