SUSE SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2025:1414-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235048

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:1414-1 advisory.

- Firefox Extended Support Release 128.10.0 ESR MFSA 2025-29 (bsc#1241621):
* CVE-2025-2817: Potential privilege escalation in Firefox Updater
* MFSA-RESERVE-2025-193709: WebGL shader attribute memory corruption in Firefox for macOS
* MFSA-RESERVE-2025-1958350: Process isolation bypass using `javascript:` URI links in cross-origin frames
* MFSA-RESERVE-2025-1949994: Potential local code execution in 'copy as cURL' command
* MFSA-RESERVE-2025-1952465: Unsafe attribute access during XPath parsing
* MFSA-RESERVE-2025-3: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 138, Thunderbird 138, Firefox ESR 128.10, and Thunderbird 128.10
* MFSA-RESERVE-2025-7: Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox ESR 128.10 and Thunderbird 128.10

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235048

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1414-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/1/2025

Updated: 5/2/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-2817

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2817

IAVA: 2025-A-0307

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1414-1

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