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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2025:01769-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237609

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01769-1 advisory.

 Update to Mozilla Firefox ESR 128.11 (MFSA 2025-44, bsc#1243353):

 - MFSA-TMP-2025-0001: Double-free in libvpx encoder (bmo#1962421)
 - CVE-2025-5263: Error handling for script execution was incorrectly isolated from web content (bmo#1960745)
 - CVE-2025-5264: Potential local code execution in 'Copy as cURL' command (bmo#1950001)
 - CVE-2025-5265: Potential local code execution in 'Copy as cURL' command (bmo#1962301)
 - CVE-2025-5266: Script element events leaked cross-origin resource status (bmo#1965628)
 - CVE-2025-5267: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to leaking saved payment card details (bmo#1954137)
 - CVE-2025-5268: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 139, Thunderbird 139, Firefox ESR 128.11, and Thunderbird 128.11 (bmo#1950136, bmo#1958121, bmo#1960499, bmo#1962634)
 - CVE-2025-5269: Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox ESR 128.11 and Thunderbird 128.11 (bmo#1924108)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243353

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-May/039459.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5263

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5264

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5265

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5266

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5267

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5268

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5269

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237609

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01769-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/31/2025

Updated: 5/31/2025

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: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5269

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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: 5/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5263, CVE-2025-5264, CVE-2025-5265, CVE-2025-5266, CVE-2025-5267, CVE-2025-5268, CVE-2025-5269

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01769-1