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Mozilla Firefox ESR < 102.15

high Nessus Plugin ID 180235

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Synopsis

A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 102.15. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-35 advisory.

 - When receiving rendering data over IPC <code>mStream</code> could have been destroyed when initialized, which could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-4573)

 - When creating a callback over IPC for showing the Color Picker window, multiple of the same callbacks could have been created at a time and eventually all simultaneously destroyed as soon as one of the callbacks finished. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash.
 (CVE-2023-4574)

 - When creating a callback over IPC for showing the File Picker window, multiple of the same callbacks could have been created at a time and eventually all simultaneously destroyed as soon as one of the callbacks finished. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-4575)

 - On Windows, an integer overflow could occur in <code>RecordedSourceSurfaceCreation</code> which resulted in a heap buffer overflow potentially leaking sensitive data that could have led to a sandbox escape. This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2023-4576)

 - Excel <code>.xll</code> add-in files did not have a blocklist entry in Firefox's executable blocklist which allowed them to be downloaded without any warning of their potential harm. (CVE-2023-4581)

 - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 102.14, Firefox ESR 115.1, Thunderbird 102.14, and Thunderbird 115.1. 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-2023-4584)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 102.15 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-35/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 180235

File Name: macos_firefox_102_15_esr.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 8/29/2023

Updated: 9/26/2023

Supported Sensors: 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-2023-4584

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:/a:mozilla:firefox_esr

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Firefox/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4573, CVE-2023-4574, CVE-2023-4575, CVE-2023-4576, CVE-2023-4581, CVE-2023-4584

IAVA: 2023-A-0449-S