openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2016-1028)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93215

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss fixes the following issues :

Changes in MozillaFirefox :

- Mozilla Firefox 48.0.1 :

- Fixed an audio regression impacting some major websites (bmo#1295296)

- Fix a top crash in the JavaScript engine (bmo#1290469)

- Fix a startup crash issue caused by Websense (bmo#1291738)

- Fix a different behavior with e10s / non-e10s on <select> and mouse events (bmo#1291078)

- Fix a top crash caused by plugin issues (bmo#1264530)

- Fix a shutdown issue (bmo#1276920)

- Fix a crash in WebRTC

- added upstream patch so system plugins/extensions are correctly loaded again on x86-64 (bmo#1282843)

- CVE-2016-6354: Fix for possible buffer overrun (boo#990856)

Changes in mozilla-nss :

- also sign libfreeblpriv3.so to allow FIPS mode again (boo#992236)

Solution

Update the affected MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=990856

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992236

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93215

File Name: openSUSE-2016-1028.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-buildsymbols, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6354