SuSE 11 Security Update : Firefox (SAT Patch Number 1340)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 41955

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update brings Mozilla Firefox from the 3.0 stable branch to the current stable branch version 3.5.3.

It also fixes various security issues :

- / / CVE-2009-3075: Mozilla developers and community members identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. (MFSA 2009-47 / CVE-2009-3069 / CVE-2009-3070 / CVE-2009-3071 / CVE-2009-3072 / CVE-2009-3073)

- An anonymous security researcher, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported that the columns of a XUL tree element could be manipulated in a particular way which would leave a pointer owned by the column pointing to freed memory. An attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to crash a victim's browser and run arbitrary code on the victim's computer. (MFSA 2009-49 / CVE-2009-3077)

- Security researcher Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian reported that the default Windows font used to render the locationbar and other text fields was improperly displaying certain Unicode characters with tall line-height. In such cases the tall line-height would cause the rest of the text in the input field to be scrolled vertically out of view. An attacker could use this vulnerability to prevent a user from seeing the URL of a malicious site. Corrie Sloot also independently reported this issue to Mozilla. (MFSA 2009-50 / CVE-2009-3078)

- Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that the BrowserFeedWriter could be leveraged to run JavaScript code from web content with elevated privileges. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could construct an object containing malicious JavaScript and cause the FeedWriter to process the object, running the malicious code with chrome privileges. Thunderbird does not support the BrowserFeedWriter object and is not vulnerable in its default configuration. Thunderbird might be vulnerable if the user has installed any add-on which adds a similarly implemented feature and then enables JavaScript in mail messages. This is not the default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail. (MFSA 2009-51 / CVE-2009-3079)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 1340.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 41955

File Name: suse_11_MozillaFirefox-090924.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozillafirefox-translations, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-nspr-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-nspr, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-xulrunner191-gnomevfs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-xulrunner191-gnomevfs-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozillafirefox-branding-sled, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-xulrunner191, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-xulrunner191-translations-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-xulrunner191-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libfreebl3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libfreebl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-xulrunner191-translations, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozilla-nss-32bit

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3069, CVE-2009-3070, CVE-2009-3071, CVE-2009-3072, CVE-2009-3073, CVE-2009-3075, CVE-2009-3077, CVE-2009-3078, CVE-2009-3079

CWE: 20, 94

Detections

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