openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2019-132)

high Nessus Plugin ID 121590
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VPR Score: 8.9

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox to version 60.5.0esr fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2018-18500: Fixed a use-after-free parsing HTML5 stream (boo#1122983).

 - CVE-2018-18505: Fixed a privilege escalation through IPC channel messages (boo#1122983).

 - CVE-2018-18501: Fixed multiple memory safety bugs (boo#1122983).

Solution

Update the affected MozillaFirefox packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1122983

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121590

File Name: openSUSE-2019-132.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/5/2019

Updated: 1/19/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

VPR Score: 8.9

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

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

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, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18500, CVE-2018-18501, CVE-2018-18505