SUSE SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2025:0391-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 216207

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0391-1 advisory.

* MFSA 2025-09
* CVE-2025-1009 (bmo#1936613) Use-after-free in XSLT
* CVE-2025-1010 (bmo#1936982) Use-after-free in Custom Highlight
* CVE-2025-1011 (bmo#1936454) A bug in WebAssembly code generation could result in a crash
* CVE-2025-1012 (bmo#1939710) Use-after-free during concurrent delazification
* CVE-2024-11704 (bmo#1899402) Potential double-free vulnerability in PKCS#7 decryption handling
* CVE-2025-1013 (bmo#1932555) Potential opening of private browsing tabs in normal browsing windows
* CVE-2025-1014 (bmo#1940804) Certificate length was not properly checked
* CVE-2025-1016 (bmo#1936601, bmo#1936844, bmo#1937694, bmo#1938469, bmo#1939583, bmo#1940994) Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 135, Thunderbird 135, Firefox ESR 115.20, Firefox ESR 128.7, Thunderbird 115.20, and Thunderbird 128.7
* CVE-2025-1017 (bmo#1926256, bmo#1935471, bmo#1935984) Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 135, Thunderbird 135, Firefox ESR 128.7, and Thunderbird 128.7

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-devel and / or MozillaFirefox-translations-common packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1236539

http://www.nessus.org/u?5fcac900

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11704

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1009

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1010

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1011

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1012

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1013

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1014

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1016

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1017

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 216207

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0391-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/12/2025

Updated: 2/12/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1017

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11704, CVE-2025-1009, CVE-2025-1010, CVE-2025-1011, CVE-2025-1012, CVE-2025-1013, CVE-2025-1014, CVE-2025-1016, CVE-2025-1017

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0391-1