SUSE SLES15: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:0137-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 156926

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0137-1 advisory.

- CVE-2021-4140: Fixed iframe sandbox bypass with XSLT (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22737: Fixed race condition when playing audio files (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22738: Fixed heap-buffer-overflow in blendGaussianBlur (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22739: Fixed missing throttling on external protocol launch dialog (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22740: Fixed use-after-free of ChannelEventQueue::mOwner (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22741: Fixed browser window spoof using fullscreen mode (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22742: Fixed out-of-bounds memory access when inserting text in edit mode (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22743: Fixed browser window spoof using fullscreen mode (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22744: Fixed possible command injection via the 'Copy as curl' feature in DevTools (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22745: Fixed leaking cross-origin URLs through securitypolicyviolation event (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22746: Fixed calling into reportValidity could have lead to fullscreen window spoof (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22747: Fixed crash when handling empty pkcs7 sequence(bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22748: Fixed spoofed origin on external protocol launch dialog (bsc#1194547).
- CVE-2022-22751: Fixed memory safety bugs (bsc#1194547).

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, MozillaFirefox-translations-common and / or MozillaFirefox- translations-other packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 156926

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0137-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/21/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

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: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22751

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4140

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-other, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 1/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4140, CVE-2022-22737, CVE-2022-22738, CVE-2022-22739, CVE-2022-22740, CVE-2022-22741, CVE-2022-22742, CVE-2022-22743, CVE-2022-22744, CVE-2022-22745, CVE-2022-22746, CVE-2022-22747, CVE-2022-22748, CVE-2022-22751

IAVA: 2022-A-0017-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0137-1

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