SUSE SLES12: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:4912-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187117

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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-2023:4912-1 advisory.

- Firefox Extended Support Release 115.6.0 ESR changelog-entry (bsc#1217974)
* CVE-2023-6856: Heap-buffer-overflow affecting WebGL DrawElementsInstanced method with Mesa VM driver (bmo#1843782).
* CVE-2023-6857: Symlinks may resolve to smaller than expected buffers (bmo#1796023).
* CVE-2023-6858: Heap buffer overflow in nsTextFragment (bmo#1826791).
* CVE-2023-6859: Use-after-free in PR_GetIdentitiesLayer (bmo#1840144).
* CVE-2023-6860: Potential sandbox escape due to VideoBridge lack of texture validation (bmo#1854669).
* CVE-2023-6861: Heap buffer overflow affected nsWindow::PickerOpen(void) in headless mode (bmo#1864118).
* CVE-2023-6862: Use-after-free in nsDNSService (bsc#1868042).
* CVE-2023-6863: Undefined behavior in ShutdownObserver() (bmo#1868901).
* CVE-2023-6864: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 121, Firefox ESR 115.6, and Thunderbird 115.6.
* CVE-2023-6865: Potential exposure of uninitialized data in EncryptingOutputStream (bmo#1864123).
* CVE-2023-6867: Clickjacking permission prompts using the popup transition (bmo#1863863).

- Fixed: Various security fixes and other quality improvements MFSA 2023-50 (bsc#1217230)
* CVE-2023-6204 (bmo#1841050) Out-of-bound memory access in WebGL2 blitFramebuffer
* CVE-2023-6205 (bmo#1854076) Use-after-free in MessagePort::Entangled
* CVE-2023-6206 (bmo#1857430) Clickjacking permission prompts using the fullscreen transition
* CVE-2023-6207 (bmo#1861344) Use-after-free in ReadableByteStreamQueueEntry::Buffer
* CVE-2023-6208 (bmo#1855345) Using Selection API would copy contents into X11 primary selection.
* CVE-2023-6209 (bmo#1858570) Incorrect parsing of relative URLs starting with '///'
* CVE-2023-6212 (bmo#1658432, bmo#1820983, bmo#1829252, bmo#1856072, bmo#1856091, bmo#1859030, bmo#1860943, bmo#1862782) Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 120, Firefox ESR 115.5, and Thunderbird 115.5

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: High

ID: 187117

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4912-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/20/2023

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: 57.12

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-2023-6864

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-devel

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: 12/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6204, CVE-2023-6205, CVE-2023-6206, CVE-2023-6207, CVE-2023-6208, CVE-2023-6209, CVE-2023-6212, CVE-2023-6856, CVE-2023-6857, CVE-2023-6858, CVE-2023-6859, CVE-2023-6860, CVE-2023-6861, CVE-2023-6862, CVE-2023-6863, CVE-2023-6864, CVE-2023-6865, CVE-2023-6867

IAVA: 2023-A-0702-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4912-1

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