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openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2015-565)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 85834

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 40.0.3 to fix two security issues and several bugs.

Changes in MozillaFirefox :

 - update to Firefox 40.0.3 (bnc#943550)

 - Disable the asynchronous plugin initialization (bmo#1198590)

 - Fix a segmentation fault in the GStreamer support (bmo#1145230)

 - Fix a regression with some Japanese fonts used in the <input> field (bmo#1194055)

 - On some sites, the selection in a select combox box using the mouse could be broken (bmo#1194733) security fixes

 - MFSA 2015-94/CVE-2015-4497 (bmo#1164766, bmo#1175278, bsc#943557) Use-after-free when resizing canvas element during restyling

 - MFSA 2015-95/CVE-2015-4498 (bmo#1042699, bsc#943558) Add-on notification bypass through data URLs

Solution

Update the affected MozillaFirefox packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=943550

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 85834

File Name: openSUSE-2015-565.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2015

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-translations-other, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, 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: 8/31/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4497, CVE-2015-4498