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openSUSE 13.2, 13.1: 2015:1817-1 Important MozillaFirefox Update

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2015
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Critical patch released for MozillaFirefox tackles a major vulnerability in openSUSE, enhancing user safety while surfing the web.
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Description

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 41.0.2 to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2015-7184: Cross-origin restriction bypass using Fetch (bsc#950686).

These non-security issues were fixed:

* Fix a startup crash related to Yandex toolbar and Adblock Plus

(bmo#1209124)

* Fix potential hangs with Flash plugins (bmo#1185639)

* Fix a regression in the bookmark creation (bmo#1206376)

* Fix a startup crash with some Intel Media Accelerator 3150 graphic cards

(bmo#1207665)

* Fix a graphic crash, occurring occasionally on Facebook (bmo#1178601)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update important openSUSE MozillaFirefox Cross-origin issue

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-2015-678=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-678=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (ppc64 ppc64le):

MozillaFirefox-41.0.2-47.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-41.0.2-47.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-41.0.2-47.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-41.0.2-47.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-41.0.2-47.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-41.0.2-47.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-41.0.2-47.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (ppc64):

MozillaFirefox-41.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-41.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-41.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-41.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-41.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-41.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-41.0.2-91.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7184.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949983

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950686

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1817-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update important openSUSE MozillaFirefox Cross-origin issue

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