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openSUSE 13.1: 2015-0077-1 Important: MozillaFirefox Memory Fix

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2015
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An essential notification from openSUSE concerning vulnerabilities in MozillaFirefox. Please verify that your system is updated.
An update that fixes 10 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 35.0 (bnc#910669)

Notable features:

* Firefox Hello with new rooms-based conversations model

* Implemented HTTP Public Key Pinning Extension (for enhanced

authentication of encrypted connections)

Security fixes:

* MFSA 2015-01/CVE-2014-8634/CVE-2014-8635 Miscellaneous memory safety

hazards

* MFSA 2015-02/CVE-2014-8637 (bmo#1094536) Uninitialized memory use during

bitmap rendering

* MFSA 2015-03/CVE-2014-8638 (bmo#1080987) sendBeacon requests lack an

Origin header

* MFSA 2015-04/CVE-2014-8639 (bmo#1095859) Cookie injection through Proxy

Authenticate responses

* MFSA 2015-05/CVE-2014-8640 (bmo#1100409) Read of uninitialized memory in

Web Audio

* MFSA 2015-06/CVE-2014-8641 (bmo#1108455) Read-after-free in WebRTC

* MFSA 2015-07/CVE-2014-8643 (bmo#1114170) (Windows-only) Gecko Media

Plugin sandbox escape

* MFSA 2015-08/CVE-2014-8642 (bmo#1079658) Delegated OCSP responder

...

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory important memory safety openSUSE patch instructions MozillaFirefox

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-40

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-35.0-54.2

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-35.0-54.2

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-35.0-54.2

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-35.0-54.2

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-35.0-54.2

MozillaFirefox-devel-35.0-54.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-35.0-54.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-35.0-54.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8634.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8635.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8636.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8637.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8638.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8639.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8640.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8641.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8642.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8643.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908892

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910669

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0077-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 .

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory important memory safety openSUSE patch instructions MozillaFirefox

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