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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2015:1504-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 85868

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Synopsis

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

Description

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 38.2.1 ESR, fixing two severe security bugs. (bsc#943608)

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

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

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-SP2-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch slessp2-firefox-20150831-12071=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP1-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch slessp1-firefox-20150831-12071=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp2-firefox-20150831-12071=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp1-firefox-20150831-12071=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=943557

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=943558

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=943608

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4497/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4498/

http://www.nessus.org/u?faf3ed4f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 85868

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1504-1.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/9/2015

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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: 9/4/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2015

Reference Information

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