openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-1774)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44370

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Mozilla Firefox was upgraded to 3.5.7 fixing some bugs and regressions.

CVE-2010-0220: The nsObserverList::FillObserverArray function in xpcom/ds/nsObserverList.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted website that triggers memory consumption and an accompanying Low Memory alert dialog, and also triggers attempted removal of an observer from an empty observers array.

Solution

Update the affected MozillaFirefox packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568011

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44370

File Name: suse_11_2_MozillaFirefox-100111.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/2/2010

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner191, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner191-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner191-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner191-gnomevfs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner191-gnomevfs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner191-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner191-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-xpcom191, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0220

CWE: 399