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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : SpiderMonkey vulnerability (USN-6147-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 176986

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 22.10 / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6147-1 advisory.

 - Mozilla developers and community members Gabriele Svelto, Andrew McCreight, the Mozilla Fuzzing Team, Sean Feng, and Sebastian Hengst reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 113 and Firefox ESR 102.11. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-34416)

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

Solution

Update the affected libmozjs-102-0 and / or libmozjs-102-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6147-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 176986

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6147-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/8/2023

Updated: 10/23/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34416

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmozjs-102-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmozjs-102-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-34416

USN: 6147-1