SUSE SLES12: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3837-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 182120

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3837-1 advisory.

Update to Firefox Extended Support Release 115.3.0 ESR (MFSA 2023-42, bsc#1215575):

Security fixes:

- CVE-2023-5168: Out-of-bounds write in FilterNodeD2D1 (bmo#1846683).
- CVE-2023-5169: Out-of-bounds write in PathOps (bmo#1846685).
- CVE-2023-5171: Use-after-free in Ion Compiler (bmo#1851599).
- CVE-2023-5174: Double-free in process spawning on Windows (bmo#1848454).
- CVE-2023-5176: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3 (bmo#1836353, bmo#1842674, bmo#1843824, bmo#1843962, bmo#1848890, bmo#1850180, bmo#1850983, bmo#1851195).

Other fixes:

- Fix broken build with newer binutils (bsc#1215309)

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 and / or MozillaFirefox-translations-common packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 182120

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3837-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/28/2023

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: 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-2023-5176

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: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: 9/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5168, CVE-2023-5169, CVE-2023-5171, CVE-2023-5174, CVE-2023-5176

IAVA: 2023-A-0507-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3837-1

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