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SUSE SLES12: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2959-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178805

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2959-1 advisory.

 Firefox Extended Support Release 115.0.2 ESR (MFSA 2023-26, bsc#1213230)

 Security fixes:

 - CVE-2023-3600: Fixed use-after-free in workers (bmo#1839703)

 Other fixes:

 - Fixed a startup crash experienced by some Windows users by blocking instances of a malicious injected DLL (bmo#1841751)
 - Fixed a bug with displaying a caret in the text editor on some websites (bmo#1840804)
 - Fixed a bug with broken audio rendering on some websites (bmo#1841982)
 - Fixed a bug with patternTransform translate using the wrong units (bmo#1840746)
 - Fixed a crash affecting Windows 7 users related to the DLL blocklist.

 Firefox Extended Support Release 115.0.1 ESR

 - Fixed a startup crash for Windows users with Kingsoft Antivirus software installed (bmo#1837242)

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

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213230

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3600

http://www.nessus.org/u?cee7caaa

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178805

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2959-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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-2023-3600

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

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: 7/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3600

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2959-1