When running, the updater service wrote status and log files to an unrestricted location; potentially allowing an unprivileged process to locate and exploit a vulnerability in file handling in the updater service. *Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - When running, the updater service wrote status and log files to an unrestricted location; potentially     allowing an unprivileged process to locate and exploit a vulnerability in file handling in the updater     service. *Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems     are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.
    (CVE-2019-17009)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. Some of these
    bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have
    been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3,
    and Firefox < 71. (CVE-2019-17012)

  - The plain text serializer used a fixed-size array for the number of <ol> elements it could process;
    however it was possible to overflow the static-sized array leading to memory corruption and a potentially
    exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.
    (CVE-2019-17005)

  - When using nested workers, a use-after-free could occur during worker destruction. This resulted in a
    potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and
    Firefox < 71. (CVE-2019-17008)

  - When running, the updater service wrote status and log files to an unrestricted location; potentially
    allowing an unprivileged process to locate and exploit a vulnerability in file handling in the updater
    service. *Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems
    are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.
    (CVE-2019-17009)

  - Under certain conditions, when checking the Resist Fingerprinting preference during device orientation
    checks, a race condition could have caused a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This
    vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71. (CVE-2019-17010)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2019:14260-1 advisory.

  - When encrypting with a block cipher, if a call to NSC_EncryptUpdate was made with data smaller than the     block size, a small out of bounds write could occur. This could have caused heap corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and     Firefox < 71. (CVE-2019-11745)

  - Inappropriate implementation in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2019-13722)

  - The plain text serializer used a fixed-size array for the number of  elements it could process;
    however it was possible to overflow the static-sized array leading to memory corruption and a potentially     exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.
    (CVE-2019-17005)

  - When using nested workers, a use-after-free could occur during worker destruction. This resulted in a     potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and     Firefox < 71. (CVE-2019-17008)

  - When running, the updater service wrote status and log files to an unrestricted location; potentially     allowing an unprivileged process to locate and exploit a vulnerability in file handling in the updater     service. *Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems     are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.
    (CVE-2019-17009)

  - Under certain conditions, when checking the Resist Fingerprinting preference during device orientation     checks, a race condition could have caused a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71. (CVE-2019-17010)

  - Under certain conditions, when retrieving a document from a DocShell in the antitracking code, a race     condition could cause a use-after-free condition and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability     affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71. (CVE-2019-17011)

  - Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. Some of these     bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have     been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3,     and Firefox < 71. (CVE-2019-17012)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues :

Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 68.3esr (MFSA 2019-38 bsc#1158328) &#9; 

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2019-17008: Fixed a use-after-free in worker     destruction (bmo#1546331)

  - CVE-2019-13722: Fixed a stack corruption due to     incorrect number of arguments in WebRTC code     (bmo#1580156)

  - CVE-2019-11745: Fixed an out of bounds write in NSS when     encrypting with a block cipher (bmo#1586176)

  - CVE-2019-17009: Fixed an issue where updater temporary     files accessible to unprivileged processes (bmo#1510494)

  - CVE-2019-17010: Fixed a use-after-free when performing     device orientation checks (bmo#1581084)

  - CVE-2019-17005: Fixed a buffer overflow in plain text     serializer (bmo#1584170)

  - CVE-2019-17011: Fixed a use-after-free when retrieving a     document in antitracking (bmo#1591334)

  - CVE-2019-17012: Fixed multiple memmory issues     (bmo#1449736, bmo#1533957, bmo#1560667,bmo#1567209,     bmo#1580288, bmo#1585760, bmo#1592502)

Other issues addressed :

  - New: Message display toolbar action WebExtension API     (bmo#1531597)

  - New: Navigation buttons are now available in content     tabs (bmo#787683)

  - Fixed an issue where write window was not always correct     (bmo#1593280)

  - Fixed toolbar issues (bmo#1584160)

  - Fixed issues with LDAP lookup when SSL was enabled     (bmo#1576364)

  - Fixed an issue with scam link confirmation panel     (bmo#1596413)

  - Fixed an issue with the write window where the Link     Properties dialog was not showing named anchors in     context menu (bmo#1593629)

  - Fixed issues with calendar (bmo#1588516)

  - Fixed issues with chat where reordering via     drag-and-drop was not working on Instant messaging     status dialog (bmo#1591505)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues :

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 68.3esr (MFSA 2019-37 bsc#1158328)&#9;
&#9; Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2019-17008: Fixed a use-after-free in worker     destruction (bmo#1546331)

  - CVE-2019-13722: Fixed a stack corruption due to     incorrect number of arguments in WebRTC code     (bmo#1580156)

  - CVE-2019-11745: Fixed an out of bounds write in NSS when     encrypting with a block cipher (bmo#1586176)

  - CVE-2019-17009: Fixed an issue where updater temporary     files accessible to unprivileged processes (bmo#1510494)

  - CVE-2019-17010: Fixed a use-after-free when performing     device orientation checks (bmo#1581084)

  - CVE-2019-17005: Fixed a buffer overflow in plain text     serializer (bmo#1584170)

  - CVE-2019-17011: Fixed a use-after-free when retrieving a     document in antitracking (bmo#1591334)

  - CVE-2019-17012: Fixed multiple memmory issues     (bmo#1449736, bmo#1533957, bmo#1560667,bmo#1567209,     bmo#1580288, bmo#1585760, bmo#1592502)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues :

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 68.3esr (MFSA 2019-37 bsc#1158328)

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-17008: Fixed a use-after-free in worker destruction (bmo#1546331)

CVE-2019-13722: Fixed a stack corruption due to incorrect number of arguments in WebRTC code (bmo#1580156)

CVE-2019-11745: Fixed an out of bounds write in NSS when encrypting with a block cipher (bmo#1586176)

CVE-2019-17009: Fixed an issue where updater temporary files accessible to unprivileged processes (bmo#1510494)

CVE-2019-17010: Fixed a use-after-free when performing device orientation checks (bmo#1581084)

CVE-2019-17005: Fixed a buffer overflow in plain text serializer (bmo#1584170)

CVE-2019-17011: Fixed a use-after-free when retrieving a document in antitracking (bmo#1591334)

CVE-2019-17012: Fixed multiple memmory issues (bmo#1449736, bmo#1533957, bmo#1560667,bmo#1567209, bmo#1580288, bmo#1585760, bmo#1592502)

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.

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 68.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-38 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers Christoph Diehl, Nathan Froyd, Jason Kratzer, Christian Holler, Karl Tomlinson, Tyson     Smith reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. Some of these bugs showed     evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been     exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17012)

  - When using nested workers, a use-after-free could occur during worker destruction. This resulted in a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-17008)

  - When setting a thread name on Windows in WebRTC, an incorrect number of arguments could have been     supplied, leading to stack corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.  Note: this issue only occurs     on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2019-13722)

  - When encrypting with a block cipher, if a call to <code>NSCEncryptUpdate</code> was made with data smaller     than the block size, a small out of bounds write could occur. This could have caused heap corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-11745)

  - When running, the updater service wrote status and log files to an unrestricted location; potentially     allowing an unprivileged process to locate and exploit a vulnerability in file handling in the updater     service.  Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems     are not affected. (CVE-2019-17009)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 68.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-38 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers Christoph Diehl, Nathan Froyd, Jason Kratzer, Christian Holler, Karl Tomlinson, Tyson     Smith reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. Some of these bugs showed     evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been     exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17012)

  - When using nested workers, a use-after-free could occur during worker destruction. This resulted in a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-17008)

  - When setting a thread name on Windows in WebRTC, an incorrect number of arguments could have been     supplied, leading to stack corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.  Note: this issue only occurs     on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2019-13722)

  - When encrypting with a block cipher, if a call to <code>NSCEncryptUpdate</code> was made with data smaller     than the block size, a small out of bounds write could occur. This could have caused heap corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-11745)

  - When running, the updater service wrote status and log files to an unrestricted location; potentially     allowing an unprivileged process to locate and exploit a vulnerability in file handling in the updater     service.  Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems     are not affected. (CVE-2019-17009)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 71.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-36 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers and community members Philipp, Diego Calleja, Mikhail Gavrilov, Jason Kratzer,     Christian Holler, Markus Stange, Tyson Smith reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70. Some of     these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could     have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17013)

  - Improper refcounting of soft token session objects could cause a use-after-free and crash (likely limited     to a denial of service). (CVE-2019-11756)

  - When using nested workers, a use-after-free could occur during worker destruction. This resulted in a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-17008)

  - When setting a thread name on Windows in WebRTC, an incorrect number of arguments could have been     supplied, leading to stack corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.  Note: this issue only occurs     on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2019-13722)

  - When encrypting with a block cipher, if a call to <code>NSCEncryptUpdate</code> was made with data smaller     than the block size, a small out of bounds write could occur. This could have caused heap corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-11745)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 71.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-36 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers and community members Philipp, Diego Calleja, Mikhail Gavrilov, Jason Kratzer,     Christian Holler, Markus Stange, Tyson Smith reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70. Some of     these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could     have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17013)

  - Improper refcounting of soft token session objects could cause a use-after-free and crash (likely limited     to a denial of service). (CVE-2019-11756)

  - When using nested workers, a use-after-free could occur during worker destruction. This resulted in a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-17008)

  - When setting a thread name on Windows in WebRTC, an incorrect number of arguments could have been     supplied, leading to stack corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.  Note: this issue only occurs     on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2019-13722)

  - When encrypting with a block cipher, if a call to <code>NSCEncryptUpdate</code> was made with data smaller     than the block size, a small out of bounds write could occur. This could have caused heap corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-11745)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 68.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-37 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers Christoph Diehl, Nathan Froyd, Jason Kratzer, Christian Holler, Karl Tomlinson, Tyson     Smith reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. Some of these bugs showed     evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been     exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17012)

  - When using nested workers, a use-after-free could occur during worker destruction. This resulted in a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-17008)

  - When setting a thread name on Windows in WebRTC, an incorrect number of arguments could have been     supplied, leading to stack corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.   Note: this issue only occurs     on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2019-13722)

  - When encrypting with a block cipher, if a call to <code>NSCEncryptUpdate</code> was made with data smaller     than the block size, a small out of bounds write could occur. This could have caused heap corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-11745)

  - When running, the updater service wrote status and log files to an unrestricted location; potentially     allowing an unprivileged process to locate and exploit a vulnerability in file handling in the updater     service.   Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating     systems are not affected. (CVE-2019-17009)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 68.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-37 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers Christoph Diehl, Nathan Froyd, Jason Kratzer, Christian Holler, Karl Tomlinson, Tyson     Smith reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. Some of these bugs showed     evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been     exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-17012)

  - When using nested workers, a use-after-free could occur during worker destruction. This resulted in a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-17008)

  - When setting a thread name on Windows in WebRTC, an incorrect number of arguments could have been     supplied, leading to stack corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.   Note: this issue only occurs     on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2019-13722)

  - When encrypting with a block cipher, if a call to <code>NSCEncryptUpdate</code> was made with data smaller     than the block size, a small out of bounds write could occur. This could have caused heap corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-11745)

  - When running, the updater service wrote status and log files to an unrestricted location; potentially     allowing an unprivileged process to locate and exploit a vulnerability in file handling in the updater     service.   Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating     systems are not affected. (CVE-2019-17009)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and
-current to fix security issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
249945	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-17009	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
404429	Alpine: multiple firefox-esr packages: security update to 68.3.0-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
404429	Alpine: multiple firefox-esr packages: security update to 68.3.0-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
150601	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2019:14260-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
132764	openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2020-3)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
132763	openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2020-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
132336	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2019:3347-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
132308	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2019:3337-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
131956	Mozilla Thunderbird < 68.3	Nessus	Windows	Local	high
131955	Mozilla Thunderbird < 68.3	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	Local	high
131773	Mozilla Firefox < 71.0	Nessus	Windows	Local	high
131772	Mozilla Firefox < 71.0	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	Local	high
131767	Mozilla Firefox ESR < 68.3	Nessus	Windows	Local	high
131766	Mozilla Firefox ESR < 68.3	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	Local	high
131681	Slackware 14.2 / current : mozilla-firefox (SSA:2019-337-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	Local	high

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