SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2014:1458-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83846

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Synopsis

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

Description

This version update of Mozilla Firefox to 31.2.0ESR brings improvements, stability fixes and also security fixes for the following CVEs :

CVE-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1575, CVE-2014-1576 ,CVE-2014-1577, CVE-2014-1578, CVE-2014-1581, CVE-2014-1583, CVE-2014-1585, CVE-2014-1586

It also disables SSLv3 by default to mitigate the protocol downgrade attack known as POODLE.

This update fixes some regressions introduced by the previously released update.

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 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-firefox31-201411-9972

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-firefox31-201411-9972

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-firefox31-201411-9972

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS :

zypper in -t patch slessp1-firefox31-201411-9971

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-firefox31-201411-9972

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83846

File Name: suse_SU-2014-1458-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/27/2015

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: 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: 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, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nspr, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss, 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: 11/19/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1575, CVE-2014-1576, CVE-2014-1577, CVE-2014-1578, CVE-2014-1581, CVE-2014-1583, CVE-2014-1585, CVE-2014-1586

BID: 70424, 70425, 70426, 70427, 70428, 70430, 70436, 70439, 70440

Detections

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