SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED, mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2016:0334-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 88619

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, mozilla-nss fixes the following issues: (bsc#963520)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 38.6.0 ESR. Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.20.2.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

- CVE-2016-1930: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 38.6 (bsc#963632)

- CVE-2016-1935: Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation (bsc#963635)

- CVE-2016-1938: Calculations with mp_div and mp_exptmod in Network Security Services (NSS) canproduce wrong results (bsc#963731)

The following improvements were added :

- bsc#954447: Mozilla NSS now supports a number of new DHE ciphersuites

- Tracking protection is now enabled by default

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-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-mozilla-12383=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 88619

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0334-1.nasl

Version: 2.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/8/2016

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

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, 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: 2/4/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1930, CVE-2016-1935, CVE-2016-1938

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