SUSE SLES10 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2014:1458-3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83848

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.

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

Update the affected MozillaFirefox packages

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=900941

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905056

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905528

http://www.nessus.org/u?191a2707

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1574/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1575/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1576/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1577/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1578/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1581/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1583/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1585/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1586/

http://www.nessus.org/u?3d33b30e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83848

File Name: suse_SU-2014-1458-3.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

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:mozilla-nspr-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-devel, 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: 11/24/2014

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