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SUSE SLES12: MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1000-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192667

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1000-1 advisory.

 Firefox Extended Support Release 115.9.1esr ESR MFSA 2024-16 (bsc#1221850)

 - CVE-2024-29944: Privileged JavaScript Execution via Event Handlers (bmo#1886852).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221850

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-29944

http://www.nessus.org/u?cf3f2b1b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 192667

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1000-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2024

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: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.48

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-2024-29944

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 3/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29944

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1000-1