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Mageia: 2018-0420 Moderate: Mozilla Firefox Memory Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2018
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Newly released Firefox updates tackle major memory safety vulnerabilities alongside several security defects. Discover the details of the improvements today.
Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities: Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 60.3 (CVE-2018-12389)

Summary

Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities:
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 60.3 (CVE-2018-12389).
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 63 and Firefox ESR 60.3 (CVE-2018-12390).
Mozilla: Crash with nested event loops (CVE-2018-12392).
Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion while loading JavaScript (CVE-2018-12393).
Mozilla: WebExtension bypass of domain restrictions through header rewriting (CVE-2018-12395).
Mozilla: WebExtension content scripts can execute in disallowed contexts (CVE-2018-12396).
Mozilla: WebExtension local file permission check bypass (CVE-2018-12397).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23751

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-27/

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3005

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12389

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12390

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12392

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12393

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12395

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12396

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12397

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/firefox-60.3.0-1.mga6

- 6/core/firefox-l10n-60.3.0-1.mga6

- 6/core/nspr-4.20-1.mga6

- 6/core/nss-3.36.5-1.2.mga6

- 6/core/rootcerts-20181001.00-1.mga6

Publication date: 27 Oct 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0420.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-12389, CVE-2018-12390, CVE-2018-12392, CVE-2018-12393, CVE-2018-12395, CVE-2018-12396, CVE-2018-12397

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