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openSUSE 13.2: Security Upgrade for MozillaFirefox, Key Fixes for 21 Issues

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2015
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A security patch for MozillaFirefox resolves 21 weaknesses in openSUSE, delivering crucial enhancements!
An update that fixes 21 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

- update to Firefox 40.0 (bnc#940806)

* Added protection against unwanted software downloads

* Suggested Tiles show sites of interest, based on categories from your

recent browsing history

* Hello allows adding a link to conversations to provide context

on what the conversation will be about

* New style for add-on manager based on the in-content preferences style

* Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off

main thread compositing (GNU/Linux only)

* Graphic blocklist mechanism improved: Firefox version ranges can be

specified, limiting the number of devices blocked security fixes:

* MFSA 2015-79/CVE-2015-4473/CVE-2015-4474 Miscellaneous memory safety

hazards

* MFSA 2015-80/CVE-2015-4475 (bmo#1175396) Out-of-bounds read with

malformed MP3 file

* MFSA 2015-81/CVE-2015-4477 (bmo#1179484) Use-after-free in MediaStream

playback

* MFSA 2015-82/CVE-2015-4478...

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update DoS memory safety important patch 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-2015-548=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-40.0-38.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-40-4.3.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-40.0-38.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-40.0-38.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-40.0-38.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-40.0-38.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-40.0-38.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-40.0-38.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-40.0-38.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4473.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4474.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4475.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4477.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4478.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4479.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4480.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4481.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4482.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4483.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4484.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4485.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4486.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4487.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4488.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4489.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4490.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4491.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4492.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1389-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update DoS memory safety important patch openSUSE MozillaFirefox

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