SUSE SLES12: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:0971-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192488

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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-2024:0971-1 advisory.

Firefox Extended Support Release 115.9.0 ESR (bsc#1221327):

- CVE-2024-0743: Crash in NSS TLS method (bmo#1867408).
- CVE-2024-2605: Windows Error Reporter could be used as a Sandbox escape vector (bmo#1872920).
- CVE-2024-2607: JIT code failed to save return registers on Armv7-A (bmo#1879939).
- CVE-2024-2608: Integer overflow could have led to out of bounds write (bmo#1880692).
- CVE-2024-2616: Improve handling of out-of-memory conditions in ICU (bmo#1846197).
- CVE-2023-5388: NSS susceptible to timing attack against RSA decryption (bmo#1780432).
- CVE-2024-2610: Improper handling of html and body tags enabled CSP nonce leakage (bmo#1871112).
- CVE-2024-2611: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to a user accidentally granting permissions (bmo#1876675).
- CVE-2024-2612: Self referencing object could have potentially led to a use- after-free (bmo#1879444).
- CVE-2024-2614: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 124, Firefox ESR 115.9, and Thunderbird 115.9 (bmo#1685358, bmo#1861016, bmo#1880405, bmo#1881093).

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: 192488

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0971-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/23/2024

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: 6.9

Percentile: 97.07

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2614

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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-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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5388, CVE-2024-0743, CVE-2024-2605, CVE-2024-2607, CVE-2024-2608, CVE-2024-2610, CVE-2024-2611, CVE-2024-2612, CVE-2024-2614, CVE-2024-2616

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0971-1

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