SUSE SLED12: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:3446-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 154183

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3446-1 advisory.

Firefox Extended Support Release 91.2.0 ESR

* Fixed: Various stability, functionality, and security fixes

MFSA 2021-45 (bsc#1191332)

* CVE-2021-38496: Use-after-free in MessageTask
* CVE-2021-38497: Validation message could have been overlaid on another origin
* CVE-2021-38498: Use-after-free of nsLanguageAtomService object
* CVE-2021-32810: Fixed Data race in crossbeam-deque
* CVE-2021-38500: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 93, Firefox ESR 78.15, and Firefox ESR 91.2
* CVE-2021-38501: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 93 and Firefox ESR 91.2

- Fixed crash in FIPS mode (bsc#1190710)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-devel and / or MozillaFirefox-translations-common packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 154183

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3446-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-38501

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32810

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox

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: 10/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32810, CVE-2021-38496, CVE-2021-38497, CVE-2021-38498, CVE-2021-38500, CVE-2021-38501

IAVA: 2021-A-0450-S, 2021-A-0461-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3446-1

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