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openSUSE 13.2: 2015:0607-1 Critical MozillaFirefox Code Issues

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2015
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The latest patch for MozillaFirefox addresses several vulnerabilities, improving defenses against unauthorized code execution and privilege escalation risks.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

MozillaFirefox was updated to Firefox 36.0.4 to fix two critical security

issues found during Pwn2Own:

* MFSA 2015-28/CVE-2015-0818 (bmo#1144988) Privilege escalation through

SVG navigation

* MFSA 2015-29/CVE-2015-0817 (bmo#1145255) Code execution through

incorrect JavaScript bounds checking elimination

Als fixed were the following bugs:

- Copy the icons to /usr/share/icons instead of symlinking them: in

preparation for containerized apps (e.g. xdg-app) as well as AppStream

metadata extraction, there are a couple locations that need to be real

files for system integration (.desktop files, icons, mime-type info).

- update to Firefox 36.0.1 Bugfixes:

* Disable the usage of the ANY DNS query type (bmo#1093983)

* Hello may become inactive until restart (bmo#1137469)

* Print preferences may not be preserved (bmo#1136855)

* Hello contact tabs may not be visible (bmo#1137141)

* Accept hostnames that include...

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update code execution privilege escalation openSUSE 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 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-263=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-263=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-36.0.4-18.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-36.0.4-18.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-36.0.4-18.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-36.0.4-18.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-36.0.4-18.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-36.0.4-18.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-36.0.4-18.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-36.0.4-18.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-36.0.4-63.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-36.0.4-63.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-36.0.4-63.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-36.0.4-63.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-36.0.4-63.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-36.0.4-63.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-36.0.4-63.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-36.0.4-63.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0817.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0818.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923534

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0607-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update code execution privilege escalation openSUSE MozillaFirefox

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