SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2021:1307-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149006

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues :

Firefox was updated to 78.10.0 ESR (bsc#1184960)

- CVE-2021-23994: Out of bound write due to lazy initialization

- CVE-2021-23995: Use-after-free in Responsive Design Mode

- CVE-2021-23998: Secure Lock icon could have been spoofed

- CVE-2021-23961: More internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage

- CVE-2021-23999: Blob URLs may have been granted additional privileges

- CVE-2021-24002: Arbitrary FTP command execution on FTP servers using an encoded URL

- CVE-2021-29945: Incorrect size computation in WebAssembly JIT could lead to null-reads

- CVE-2021-29946: Port blocking could be bypassed

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP3-2021-1307=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP2-2021-1307=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184960

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23961/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23994/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23995/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23998/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23999/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-24002/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29945/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29946/

http://www.nessus.org/u?d089d0b1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149006

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1307-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2021

Updated: 1/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29946

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-other, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23961, CVE-2021-23994, CVE-2021-23995, CVE-2021-23998, CVE-2021-23999, CVE-2021-24002, CVE-2021-29945, CVE-2021-29946