SUSE SLES15: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3163-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 179297

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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-2023:3163-1 advisory.

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following security issues:

Firefox was updated to Extended Support Release 115.1.0 ESR (bsc#1213746).

- CVE-2023-4045: Fixed cross-origin restrictions bypass with Offscreen Canvas (bmo#1833876).
- CVE-2023-4046: Fixed incorrect value used during WASM compilation (bmo#1837686).
- CVE-2023-4047: Fixed potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking (bmo#1839073).
- CVE-2023-4048: Fixed crash in DOMParser due to out-of-memory conditions (bmo#1841368).
- CVE-2023-4049: Fixed potential race conditions when releasing platform objects (bmo#1842658).
- CVE-2023-4050: Fixed stack buffer overflow in StorageManager (bmo#1843038).
- CVE-2023-4052: Fixed file deletion and privilege escalation through Firefox uninstaller (bmo#1824420).
- CVE-2023-4054: Fixed lack of warning when opening appref-ms files (bmo#1840777).
- CVE-2023-4055: Fixed cookie jar overflow caused unexpected cookie jar state (bmo#1782561).
- CVE-2023-4056: Fixed memory safety bugs (bmo#1820587, bmo#1824634, bmo#1839235, bmo#1842325, bmo#1843847).
- CVE-2023-4057: Fixed memory safety bugs (bmo#1841682).

Bugfixes:

- Remove bashisms from startup-script (bsc#1213657).

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: 179297

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3163-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/3/2023

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: 57.58

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-2023-4057

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: 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4045, CVE-2023-4046, CVE-2023-4047, CVE-2023-4048, CVE-2023-4049, CVE-2023-4050, CVE-2023-4052, CVE-2023-4054, CVE-2023-4055, CVE-2023-4056, CVE-2023-4057

IAVA: 2023-A-0388-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3163-1

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