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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2016:0727-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 89929
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss fixes the following issues :Mozilla Firefox was updated to 38.7.0 ESR (bsc#969894), fixing following security issues :
- MFSA 2016-16/CVE-2016-1952/CVE-2016-1953 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:45.0 / rv:38.7)
- MFSA 2016-17/CVE-2016-1954 Local file overwriting and potential privilege escalation through CSP reports
- MFSA 2016-20/CVE-2016-1957 Memory leak in libstagefright when deleting an array during MP4 processing
- MFSA 2016-21/CVE-2016-1958 Displayed page address can be overridden
- MFSA 2016-23/CVE-2016-1960 Use-after-free in HTML5 string parser
- MFSA 2016-24/CVE-2016-1961 Use-after-free in SetBody
- MFSA 2016-25/CVE-2016-1962 Use-after-free when using multiple WebRTC data channels
- MFSA 2016-27/CVE-2016-1964 Use-after-free during XML transformations
- MFSA 2016-28/CVE-2016-1965 Addressbar spoofing though history navigation and Location protocol property
- MFSA 2016-31/CVE-2016-1966 Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI plugin
- MFSA 2016-34/CVE-2016-1974 Out-of-bounds read in HTML parser following a failed allocation
- MFSA 2016-35/CVE-2016-1950 Buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS
- MFSA 2016-37/CVE-2016-1977/CVE-2016-2790/CVE-2016-2791/ CVE-2016-2792/CVE-2016-2793/CVE-2016-2794/CVE-2016-2795/ CVE-2016-2796/CVE-2016-2797/CVE-2016-2798/CVE-2016-2799/ CVE-2016-2800/CVE-2016-2801/CVE-2016-2802 Font vulnerabilities in the Graphite 2 library
Mozilla NSPR was updated to version 4.12 (bsc#969894), fixing following bugs :
- added a PR_GetEnvSecure function, which attempts to detect if the program is being executed with elevated privileges, and returns NULL if detected. It is recommended to use this function in general purpose library code.
- fixed a memory allocation bug related to the PR_*printf functions
- exported API PR_DuplicateEnvironment, which had already been added in NSPR 4.10.9
- added support for FreeBSD aarch64
- several minor correctness and compatibility fixes
Mozilla NSS was updated to fix security issues (bsc#969894) :
- MFSA 2016-15/CVE-2016-1978 Use-after-free in NSS during SSL connections in low memory
- MFSA 2016-35/CVE-2016-1950 Buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS
- MFSA 2016-36/CVE-2016-1979 Use-after-free during processing of DER encoded keys in NSS
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 12-SP1 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-419=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2016-419=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-419=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-419=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-419=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2016-419=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969894
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1950/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1952/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1953/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1954/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1957/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1958/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1960/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1961/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1962/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1964/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1965/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1966/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1974/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1977/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1978/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1979/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2790/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2791/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2792/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2793/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2794/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2795/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2796/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2797/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2798/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2799/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2800/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2801/
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 89929
File Name: suse_SU-2016-0727-1.nasl
Version: 2.21
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 3/15/2016
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: Critical
Score: 9.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 8.7
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: 9.4
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:H/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nspr-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nspr-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-certs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nspr, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3-hmac, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2016
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2016
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2016-1950, CVE-2016-1952, CVE-2016-1953, CVE-2016-1954, CVE-2016-1957, CVE-2016-1958, CVE-2016-1960, CVE-2016-1961, CVE-2016-1962, CVE-2016-1964, CVE-2016-1965, CVE-2016-1966, CVE-2016-1974, CVE-2016-1977, CVE-2016-1978, CVE-2016-1979, CVE-2016-2790, CVE-2016-2791, CVE-2016-2792, CVE-2016-2793, CVE-2016-2794, CVE-2016-2795, CVE-2016-2796, CVE-2016-2797, CVE-2016-2798, CVE-2016-2799, CVE-2016-2800, CVE-2016-2801, CVE-2016-2802