openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-5799)

high Nessus Plugin ID 75952

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

MozillaFirefox was updated to 10.0.1 to fix critical bugs and security issue.

Following security issue was fixed: CVE-2012-0452: 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.

Firefox 9 and earlier are not affected by this vulnerability.

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

Solution

Update the affected MozillaFirefox packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 75952

File Name: suse_11_4_MozillaFirefox-120213.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-buildsymbols, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0452

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