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openSUSE Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (openSUSE-2017-509)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99649

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Mozilla Firefox was updated to Firefox 52.1.0esr.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed (bsc#1035082) :

 - CVE-2017-5443: Out-of-bounds write during BinHex decoding

 - CVE-2017-5429: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 53, Firefox ESR 45.9, and Firefox ESR 52.1

 - CVE-2017-5464: Memory corruption with accessibility and DOM manipulation

 - CVE-2017-5465: Out-of-bounds read in ConvolvePixel

 - CVE-2017-5466: Origin confusion when reloading isolated data:text/html URL

 - CVE-2017-5467: Memory corruption when drawing Skia content

 - CVE-2017-5460: Use-after-free in frame selection

 - CVE-2017-5461: Out-of-bounds write in Base64 encoding in NSS

 - CVE-2017-5448: Out-of-bounds write in ClearKeyDecryptor

 - CVE-2017-5449: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with animation

 - CVE-2017-5446: Out-of-bounds read when HTTP/2 DATA frames are sent with incorrect data

 - CVE-2017-5447: Out-of-bounds read during glyph processing

 - CVE-2017-5444: Buffer overflow while parsing application/http-index-format content

The package is now following the ESR 52 branch :

 - Enable plugin support by default

 - service workers are disabled by default

 - push notifications are disabled by default

 - WebAssembly (wasm) is disabled

 - Less use of multiprocess architecture Electrolysis (e10s)

Solution

Update the affected Mozilla Firefox packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1035082

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99649

File Name: openSUSE-2017-509.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2017

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC: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:42.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, 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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5429, CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5448, CVE-2017-5449, CVE-2017-5460, CVE-2017-5461, CVE-2017-5464, CVE-2017-5465, CVE-2017-5466, CVE-2017-5467