Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This Mozilla Firefox update provides several security and non-security fixes.
Mozilla Firefox has been updated to the 24.5.0esr version, which fixes the following issues :
- MFSA 2014-34/CVE-2014-1518 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards
- MFSA 2014-37/CVE-2014-1523 Out of bounds read while decoding JPG images
- MFSA 2014-38/CVE-2014-1524 Buffer overflow when using non-XBL object as XBL
- MFSA 2014-42/CVE-2014-1529 Privilege escalation through Web Notification API
- MFSA 2014-43/CVE-2014-1530 Cross-site scripting (XSS) using history navigations
- MFSA 2014-44/CVE-2014-1531 Use-after-free in imgLoader while resizing images
- MFSA 2014-46/CVE-2014-1532 Use-after-free in nsHostResolver
Mozilla NSS has been updated to version 3.16
- required for Firefox 29
- CVE-2014-1492_ In a wildcard certificate, the wildcard character should not be embedded within the U-label of an internationalized domain name. See the last bullet point in RFC 6125, Section 7.2.
- Update of root certificates.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected Mozilla Firefox packages