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openSUSE Security Update : mozilla-nspr (mozilla-nspr-1510)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42416

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a bug in the Mozilla NSPR helper libraries, which could be used by remote attackers to potentially execute code via JavaScript vectors.

MFSA 2009-59 / CVE-2009-1563: Security researcher Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research reported a heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla's string to floating point number conversion routines. Using this vulnerability an attacker could craft some malicious JavaScript code containing a very long string to be converted to a floating point number which would result in improper memory allocation and the execution of an arbitrary memory location. This vulnerability could thus be leveraged by the attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer.

Solution

Update the affected mozilla-nspr packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546371

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42416

File Name: suse_11_0_mozilla-nspr-091104.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/9/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nspr, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nspr-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nspr-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0689

CWE: 119