SUSE SLES12: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:0580-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190877

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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-2024:0580-1 advisory.

Update to Firefox Extended Support Release 115.8.0 ESR (MFSA 2024-06) (bsc#1220048):

- CVE-2024-1546: Out-of-bounds memory read in networking channels
- CVE-2024-1547: Alert dialog could have been spoofed on another site
- CVE-2024-1548: Fullscreen Notification could have been hidden by select element
- CVE-2024-1549: Custom cursor could obscure the permission dialog
- CVE-2024-1550: Mouse cursor re-positioned unexpectedly could have led to unintended permission grants
- CVE-2024-1551: Multipart HTTP Responses would accept the Set-Cookie header in response parts
- CVE-2024-1552: Incorrect code generation on 32-bit ARM devices
- CVE-2024-1553: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 123, Firefox ESR 115.8, and Thunderbird 115.8

- Recommend libfido2-udev on codestreams that exist, in order to try to get security keys (e.g. Yubikeys) work out of the box. (bsc#1184272)

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: 190877

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0580-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/22/2024

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1552

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1546, CVE-2024-1547, CVE-2024-1548, CVE-2024-1549, CVE-2024-1550, CVE-2024-1551, CVE-2024-1552, CVE-2024-1553

IAVA: 2024-A-0108-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0580-1

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