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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (SUSE-SU-2014:0665-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 83621
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla NSS update fixes several security and non-security issues.Mozilla Firefox has been updated to 24.5.0esr which fixes the following issues :
- MFSA 2014-34/CVE-2014-1518 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards
- MFSA 2014-37/CVE-2014-1523 Out of bounds read while decoding JPG images
- MFSA 2014-38/CVE-2014-1524 Buffer overflow when using non-XBL object as XBL
- MFSA 2014-42/CVE-2014-1529 Privilege escalation through Web Notification API
- MFSA 2014-43/CVE-2014-1530 Cross-site scripting (XSS) using history navigations
- MFSA 2014-44/CVE-2014-1531 Use-after-free in imgLoader while resizing images
- MFSA 2014-46/CVE-2014-1532 Use-after-free in nsHostResolver
Mozilla NSS has been updated to 3.16
- required for Firefox 29
- CVE-2014-1492_ In a wildcard certificate, the wildcard character should not be embedded within the U-label of an internationalized domain name. See the last bullet point in RFC 6125, Section 7.2.
- Update of root certificates.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS :
zypper in -t patch slessp1-MozillaFirefox-201404-9187
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?23dd3d70
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1492.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1518.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1523.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1524.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1529.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1530.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1531.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1532.html
https://bugzilla.novell.com/865539
https://bugzilla.novell.com/869827
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 83621
File Name: suse_SU-2014-0665-1.nasl
Version: 2.3
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 5/20/2015
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: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 8.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-branding-sled, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nspr
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-1492, CVE-2014-1518, CVE-2014-1523, CVE-2014-1524, CVE-2014-1529, CVE-2014-1530, CVE-2014-1531, CVE-2014-1532