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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2018:2322-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118279

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox to version ESR 52.9 fixes the following issues :

CVE-2018-5188: Various memory safety bugs (bsc#1098998)

CVE-2018-12368: No warning when opening executable SettingContent-ms files

CVE-2018-12366: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations

CVE-2018-12365: Compromised IPC child process can list local filenames

CVE-2018-12364: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins

CVE-2018-12363: Use-after-free when appending DOM nodes

CVE-2018-12362: Integer overflow in SSSE3 scaler

CVE-2018-12360: Use-after-free when using focus()

CVE-2018-5156: Media recorder segmentation fault when track type is changed during capture

CVE-2018-12359: Buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element

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-2018-1560=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 118279

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2322-2.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

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: 9.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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: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

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12359, CVE-2018-12360, CVE-2018-12362, CVE-2018-12363, CVE-2018-12364, CVE-2018-12365, CVE-2018-12366, CVE-2018-12368, CVE-2018-5156, CVE-2018-5188