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openSUSE 13.2 & 13.1: 2015:0404-1 Important: MozillaFirefox Update

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2015
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openSUSE Security Patch addresses 20 vulnerabilities in Chromium and OpenSSL, improving security and reliability of the system.
An update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss were updated to fix 18 security issues.

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 36.0. These security issues were

fixed:

- CVE-2015-0835, CVE-2015-0836: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards

- CVE-2015-0832: Appended period to hostnames can bypass HPKP and HSTS

protections

- CVE-2015-0830: Malicious WebGL content crash when writing strings

- CVE-2015-0834: TLS TURN and STUN connections silently fail to simple TCP

connections

- CVE-2015-0831: Use-after-free in IndexedDB

- CVE-2015-0829: Buffer overflow in libstagefright during MP4 video

playback

- CVE-2015-0828: Double-free when using non-default memory allocators with

a zero-length XHR

- CVE-2015-0827: Out-of-bounds read and write while rendering SVG content

- CVE-2015-0826: Buffer overflow during CSS restyling

- CVE-2015-0825: Buffer underflow during MP3 playback

- CVE-2015-0824: Crash using DrawTarget in Cairo graphics library

- CVE-2015-0823:...

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow system patch memory safety openSUSE MozillaFirefox update

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-185=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-185=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-36.0-14.2

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-36.0-14.2

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-36.0-14.2

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-36.0-14.2

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-36.0-14.2

MozillaFirefox-devel-36.0-14.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-36.0-14.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-36.0-14.2

libfreebl3-3.17.4-9.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-3.17.4-9.1

libsoftokn3-3.17.4-9.1

libsoftokn3-debuginfo-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-certs-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-debuginfo-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-debugsource-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-devel-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-tools-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo-3.17.4-9.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64):

libfreebl3-32bit-3.17.4-9.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit-3.17.4-9.1

libsoftokn3-32bit-3.17.4-9.1

libsoftokn3-debuginfo-32bit-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-certs-32bit-3.17.4-9.1

mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-32bit-3.17....

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1569.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0819.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0820.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0821.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0822.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0823.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0824.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0825.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0826.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0827.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0828.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0829.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0830.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0831.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0832.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0834.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0835.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0836.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910647

https://bugzilla...

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0404-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow system patch memory safety openSUSE MozillaFirefox update

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