SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2015:0076-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83666

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update fixes the following security issues in MozillaFirefox :

- MFSA 2015-01/CVE-2014-8634/CVE-2014-8635 (bmo#1109889, bmo#1111737, bmo#1026774, bmo#1027300, bmo#1054538, bmo#1067473, bmo#1070962, bmo#1072130, bmo#1072871, bmo#1098583) Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:35.0 / rv:31.4)

- MFSA 2015-03/CVE-2014-8638 (bmo#1080987) sendBeacon requests lack an Origin header

- MFSA 2015-04/CVE-2014-8639 (bmo#1095859) Cookie injection through Proxy Authenticate responses

- MFSA 2015-06/CVE-2014-8641 (bmo#1108455) Read-after-free in WebRTC

Also Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.17.3 to fix :

- The QuickDER decoder now decodes lengths robustly (bmo#1064670/CVE-2014-1569)

- Support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV has been added to the ssltap and tstclnt utilities

- Changes in CA 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 Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-26

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-26

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-26

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909563

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910647

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910669

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1569/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8634/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8635/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8638/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8639/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8641/

http://www.nessus.org/u?5f1bf06b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83666

File Name: suse_SU-2015-0076-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-certs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox

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: 1/19/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1569, CVE-2014-8634, CVE-2014-8635, CVE-2014-8638, CVE-2014-8639, CVE-2014-8641

BID: 71675, 72044, 72046, 72047, 72049, 72050