openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-1727)

high Nessus Plugin ID 43396
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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.0.16, fixing lots of bugs and various security issues.

The following issues were fixed :

 - MFSA 2009-65/CVE-2009-3979/CVE-2009-3981 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (1.9.0.16)

 - MFSA 2009-68/CVE-2009-3983 (bmo#487872) NTLM reflection vulnerability

 - MFSA 2009-69/CVE-2009-3984/CVE-2009-3985 (bmo#521461,bmo#514232) Location bar spoofing vulnerabilities

 - MFSA 2009-70/CVE-2009-3986 (bmo#522430) Privilege escalation via chrome window.opener

Solution

Update the affected MozillaFirefox packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559807

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 43396

File Name: suse_11_1_MozillaFirefox-091221.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/23/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox-translations, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner190, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner190-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner190-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner190-gnomevfs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner190-gnomevfs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner190-translations, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-xulrunner190-translations-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-xpcom190, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3979, CVE-2009-3981, CVE-2009-3983, CVE-2009-3984, CVE-2009-3985, CVE-2009-3986

CWE: 94