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Mageia 7 & 8 MGASA-2021-0163 Critical: Firefox Out-Of-Bound Read

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to Firefox packages have resolved security vulnerabilities in Mageia versions 7 and 8, particularly those involving out-of-bounds reads and significant weaknesses.
Texture upload into an unbound backing buffer resulted in an out-of-bound read

Summary

Texture upload into an unbound backing buffer resulted in an out-of-bound read. (CVE-2021-23981)
Angle graphics library out of date. (MOZ-2021-0002)
Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage. (CVE-2021-23982)
Malicious extensions could have spoofed popup information. (CVE-2021-23984)
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 87 and Firefox ESR 78.9 (CVE-2021-23987).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28641

- https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/78.9.0/releasenotes/?redirect_source=mozilla-org

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-11/

- - https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.tech.nspr/c/wwXfLFWZRlA

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23981

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23982

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23984

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23987

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/nss-3.63.0-1.mga8

- 8/core/nspr-4.30-1.mga8

- 8/core/firefox-78.9.0-1.mga8

- 8/core/firefox-l10n-78.9.0-1.mga8

- 7/core/nss-3.63.0-1.mga7

- 7/core/nspr-4.30-1.mga7

- 7/core/firefox-78.9.0-1.mga7

- 7/core/firefox-l10n-78.9.0-1.mga7

Severity
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Publication date: 30 Mar 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0163.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-23981, CVE-2021-23982, CVE-2021-23984, CVE-2021-23987

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