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openSUSE 10 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-5449)
high Nessus Plugin ID 33756
Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.Description
MozillaFirefox was updated to version 2.0.0.16, which fixes various bugs and following security issues :MFSA 2008-34 CVE-2008-2785: An anonymous researcher, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative program, reported a vulnerability in Mozilla CSS reference counting code. The vulnerability was caused by an insufficiently sized variable being used as a reference counter for CSS objects. By creating a very large number of references to a common CSS object, this counter could be overflowed which could cause a crash when the browser attempts to free the CSS object while still in use. An attacker could use this crash to run arbitrary code on the victim's computer.
MFSA 2008-35 CVE-2008-2933: Security researcher Billy Rios reported that if Firefox is not already running, passing it a command-line URI with pipe symbols will open multiple tabs. This URI splitting could be used to launch privileged chrome: URIs from the command-line, a partial bypass of the fix for MFSA 2005-53 which blocks external applications from loading such URIs. This vulnerability could also be used by an attacker to launch a file: URI from the command line opening a malicious local file which could exfiltrate data from the local filesystem. Combined with a vulnerability which allows an attacker to inject code into a chrome document, the above issue could be used to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer. Such a chrome injection vulnerability was reported by Mozilla developers Ben Turner and Dan Veditz who showed that a XUL based SSL error page was not properly sanitizing inputs and could be used to run arbitrary code with chrome privileges.
Solution
Update the affected MozillaFirefox packages.Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 33756
File Name: suse_MozillaFirefox-5449.nasl
Version: 1.10
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/29/2008
Updated: 1/14/2021
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-translations, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-2785, CVE-2008-2933