SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93302

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Synopsis

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

Description

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 45.3.0 ESR to fix the following issues (bsc#991809) :

- MFSA 2016-62/CVE-2016-2835/CVE-2016-2836 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:48.0 / rv:45.3)

- MFSA 2016-63/CVE-2016-2830 Favicon network connection can persist when page is closed

- MFSA 2016-64/CVE-2016-2838 Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content

- MFSA 2016-65/CVE-2016-2839 Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with FFmpeg 0.10

- MFSA 2016-67/CVE-2016-5252 Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering

- MFSA 2016-70/CVE-2016-5254 Use-after-free when using alt key and toplevel menus

- MFSA 2016-72/CVE-2016-5258 Use-after-free in DTLS during WebRTC session shutdown

- MFSA 2016-73/CVE-2016-5259 Use-after-free in service workers with nested sync events

- MFSA 2016-76/CVE-2016-5262 Scripts on marquee tag can execute in sandboxed iframes

- MFSA 2016-77/CVE-2016-2837 Buffer overflow in ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback

- MFSA 2016-78/CVE-2016-5263 Type confusion in display transformation

- MFSA 2016-79/CVE-2016-5264 Use-after-free when applying SVG effects

- MFSA 2016-80/CVE-2016-5265 Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file

- CVE-2016-6354: Fix for possible buffer overrun (bsc#990856) Also a temporary workaround was added :

- Temporarily bind Firefox to the first CPU as a hotfix for an apparent race condition (bsc#989196, bsc#990628)

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-SP1-2016-1254=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2016-1254=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-1254=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-1254=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-1254=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93302

File Name: suse_SU-2016-2131-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/2/2016

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2830, CVE-2016-2835, CVE-2016-2836, CVE-2016-2837, CVE-2016-2838, CVE-2016-2839, CVE-2016-5252, CVE-2016-5254, CVE-2016-5258, CVE-2016-5259, CVE-2016-5262, CVE-2016-5263, CVE-2016-5264, CVE-2016-5265, CVE-2016-6354

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