openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / MozillaThunderbird / mozilla-nspr (openSUSE-2015-290)

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openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / MozillaThunderbird / mozilla-nspr (openSUSE-2015-290)

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird were updated to fix several important vulnerabilities.

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 37.0.1. Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 31.6.0. mozilla-nspr was updated to 4.10.8 as a dependency.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed in Mozilla Firefox :

- Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2015-30/CVE-2015-0814/CVE-2015-0815 boo#925392)

- Use-after-free when using the Fluendo MP3 GStreamer plugin (MFSA 2015-31/CVE-2015-0813 bmo#1106596 boo#925393)

- Add-on lightweight theme installation approval bypassed through MITM attack (MFSA 2015-32/CVE-2015-0812 bmo#1128126 boo#925394)

- resource:// documents can load privileged pages (MFSA 2015-33/CVE-2015-0816 bmo#1144991 boo#925395)

- Out of bounds read in QCMS library (MFSA-2015-34/CVE-2015-0811 bmo#1132468 boo#925396)

- Incorrect memory management for simple-type arrays in WebRTC (MFSA-2015-36/CVE-2015-0808 bmo#1109552 boo#925397)

- CORS requests should not follow 30x redirections after preflight (MFSA-2015-37/CVE-2015-0807 bmo#1111834 boo#925398)

- Memory corruption crashes in Off Main Thread Compositing (MFSA-2015-38/CVE-2015-0805/CVE-2015-0806 bmo#1135511 bmo#1099437 boo#925399)

- Use-after-free due to type confusion flaws (MFSA-2015-39/CVE-2015-0803/CVE-2015-0804 (mo#1134560 boo#925400)

- Same-origin bypass through anchor navigation (MFSA-2015-40/CVE-2015-0801 bmo#1146339 boo#925401)

- Windows can retain access to privileged content on navigation to unprivileged pages (MFSA-2015-42/CVE-2015-0802 bmo#1124898 boo#925402)

The following vulnerability was fixed in functionality that was not released as an update to openSUSE :

- Certificate verification could be bypassed through the HTTP/2 Alt-Svc header (MFSA 2015-44/CVE-2015-0799 bmo#1148328 bnc#926166)

The functionality added in 37.0 and thus removed in 37.0.1 was :

- Opportunistically encrypt HTTP traffic where the server supports HTTP/2 AltSvc

The following functionality was added or updated in Mozilla Firefox :

- Heartbeat user rating system

- Yandex set as default search provider for the Turkish locale

- Bing search now uses HTTPS for secure searching

- Improved protection against site impersonation via OneCRL centralized certificate revocation

- some more behaviour changes for TLS

The following vulnerabilities were fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird :

- Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2015-30/CVE-2015-0814/CVE-2015-0815 boo#925392)

- Use-after-free when using the Fluendo MP3 GStreamer plugin (MFSA 2015-31/CVE-2015-0813 bmo#1106596 boo#925393)

- resource:// documents can load privileged pages (MFSA 2015-33/CVE-2015-0816 bmo#1144991 boo#925395)

- CORS requests should not follow 30x redirections after preflight (MFSA-2015-37/CVE-2015-0807 bmo#1111834 boo#925398)

- Same-origin bypass through anchor navigation (MFSA-2015-40/CVE-2015-0801 bmo#1146339 boo#925401)

mozilla-nspr was updated to 4.10.8 as a dependency and received the following changes :

- bmo#573192: remove the stack-based PRFileDesc cache.

- bmo#756047: check for _POSIX_THREAD_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING > 0 instead of only checking if the identifier is defined.

- bmo#1089908: Fix variable shadowing in _PR_MD_LOCKFILE.
Use PR_ARRAY_SIZE to get the array size of
_PR_RUNQ(t->cpu).

- bmo#1106600: Replace PR_ASSERT(!'foo') with PR_NOT_REACHED('foo') to fix clang -Wstring-conversion warnings.

Solution

Update the affected MozillaFirefox / MozillaThunderbird / mozilla-nspr packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82651

File Name: openSUSE-2015-290.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/9/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaThunderbird, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaThunderbird-buildsymbols, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaThunderbird-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaThunderbird-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaThunderbird-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaThunderbird-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nspr, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nspr-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nspr-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nspr-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nspr-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nspr-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2015

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Firefox PDF.js Privileged Javascript Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0799, CVE-2015-0801, CVE-2015-0802, CVE-2015-0803, CVE-2015-0804, CVE-2015-0805, CVE-2015-0806, CVE-2015-0807, CVE-2015-0808, CVE-2015-0811, CVE-2015-0812, CVE-2015-0813, CVE-2015-0814, CVE-2015-0815, CVE-2015-0816