SUSE SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2018:1334-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118254
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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox to the ESR 52.8 release fixes the following issues :

Mozil to Firefox ESR 52.8 (bsc#1092548)

Security issues fixed :

MFSA 2018-12/CVE-2018-5159: Integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in Skia

MFSA 2018-12/CVE-2018-5158: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer

MFSA 2018-12/CVE-2018-5168: Lightweight themes can be installed without user interaction

MFSA 2018-12/CVE-2018-5150: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 52.8

MFSA 2018-12/CVE-2018-5155: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths

MFSA 2018-12/CVE-2018-5183: Backport critical security fixes in Skia

MFSA 2018-12/CVE-2018-5157: Same-origin bypass of PDF Viewer to view protected PDF files

MFSA 2018-12/CVE-2018-5154: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths

MFSA 2018-12/CVE-2018-5178: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2018-943=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092548

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5150/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5154/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5155/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5157/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5158/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5159/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5168/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5174/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5178/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5183/

http://www.nessus.org/u?53325e74

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 118254

File Name: suse_SU-2018-1334-2.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2018

Updated: 9/10/2019

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

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: E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:MozillaFirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:MozillaFirefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:MozillaFirefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:MozillaFirefox-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5150, CVE-2018-5154, CVE-2018-5155, CVE-2018-5157, CVE-2018-5158, CVE-2018-5159, CVE-2018-5168, CVE-2018-5174, CVE-2018-5178, CVE-2018-5183