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SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (SAT Patch Number 5807)

high Nessus Plugin ID 57971

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Synopsis

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

Description

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 10.0.1 to fix critical bugs and security issue.

The following security issue has been fixed :

 - Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight and Olli Pettay found that ReadPrototypeBindings will leave a XBL binding in a hash table even when the function fails. If this occurs, when the cycle collector reads this hash table and attempts to do a virtual method on this binding a crash will occur. This crash may be potentially exploitable. (CVE-2012-0452)

Firefox 9 and earlier are not affected by this vulnerability.

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-10.html

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 5807.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744625

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744629

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746616

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0452.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57971

File Name: suse_11_MozillaFirefox-120214.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2012

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozillafirefox-translations, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:mozillafirefox

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0452