SUSE SLES15: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:0228-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189616

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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-2024:0228-1 advisory.

Update to Firefox Extended Support Release 115.7.0 ESR (MFSA 2024-02) (bsc#1218955):

- CVE-2024-0741: Out of bounds write in ANGLE
- CVE-2024-0742: Failure to update user input timestamp
- CVE-2024-0746: Crash when listing printers on Linux
- CVE-2024-0747: Bypass of Content Security Policy when directive unsafe-inline was set
- CVE-2024-0749: Phishing site popup could show local origin in address bar
- CVE-2024-0750: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking
- CVE-2024-0751: Privilege escalation through devtools
- CVE-2024-0753: HSTS policy on subdomain could bypass policy of upper domain
- CVE-2024-0755: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 122, Firefox ESR 115.7, and Thunderbird 115.7

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: High

ID: 189616

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0228-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/26/2024

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: 6.9

Percentile: 97.35

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-2024-0755

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, 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: 1/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-0741, CVE-2024-0742, CVE-2024-0746, CVE-2024-0747, CVE-2024-0749, CVE-2024-0750, CVE-2024-0751, CVE-2024-0753, CVE-2024-0755

IAVA: 2024-A-0053-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0228-1

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