openSUSE Security Update : Firefox (openSUSE-2016-1019)

High Nessus Plugin ID 93146

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VPR Score: 5.9

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update includes Firefox 48.0.1 to fix a few regressions and a security issue :

 - Fix an audio regression impacting some major websites

 - Fix a top crash in the JavaScript engine

 - Fix a startup crash issue caused by Websense

 - Fix a different behavior with e10s / non-e10s on select and mouse events

 - Fix a top crash caused by plugin issues

 - Fix a shutdown issue

 - Fix a crash in WebRTC

 - added upstream patch so system plugins/extensions are correctly loaded again on x86-64

 - Fix for possible buffer overrun

Solution

Update the affected Firefox packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1264530

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1276920

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1282843

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1290469

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1291078

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1291738

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292534

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1295296

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=990856

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992236

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93146

File Name: openSUSE-2016-1019.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2016/08/29

Updated: 2021/01/19

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

VPR Score: 5.9

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

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

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:libfreebl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 2016/08/27

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6354