SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr / mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2018:4235-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 120193

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Synopsis

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

Description

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

Issues fixed in MozillaFirefox :

Update to Firefox ESR 60.4 (bsc#1119105)

CVE-2018-17466: Fixed a buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read in ANGLE library with TextureStorage11

CVE-2018-18492: Fixed a use-after-free with select element

CVE-2018-18493: Fixed a buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia

CVE-2018-18494: Fixed a Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs

CVE-2018-18498: Fixed a integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images

CVE-2018-12405: Fixed a few memory safety bugs

Issues fixed in mozilla-nss: Update to NSS 3.40.1 (bsc#1119105)

CVE-2018-12404: Fixed a cache side-channel variant of the Bleichenbacher attack (bsc#1119069)

CVE-2018-12384: Fixed an issue in the SSL handshake. NSS responded to an SSLv2-compatible ClientHello with a ServerHello that had an all-zero random. (bsc#1106873)

CVE-2018-0495: Fixed a memory-cache side-channel attack with ECDSA signatures (bsc#1097410)

Fixed a decryption failure during FFDHE key exchange

Various security fixes in the ASN.1 code

Issues fixed in mozilla-nspr: Update mozilla-nspr to 4.20 (bsc#1119105)

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 Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-2018-3044=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-2018-3044=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-3044=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 120193

File Name: suse_SU-2018-4235-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/2/2019

Updated: 1/13/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-certs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-certs-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nspr, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nspr-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nspr-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nspr-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nspr-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0495, CVE-2018-12384, CVE-2018-12404, CVE-2018-12405, CVE-2018-17466, CVE-2018-18492, CVE-2018-18493, CVE-2018-18494, CVE-2018-18498

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