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openSUSE: 2016:0309-1 Important: Mozilla Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical openSUSE patch addressing several vulnerabilities in MozillaFirefox and associated packages aimed at boosting system security.
An update that fixes 14 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update to MozillaFirefox fixes several security issues and bugs.

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 44.0. Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.21

Mozilla NSPR was updated to 4.11.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

* CVE-2016-1930/CVE-2016-1931: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards

(boo#963633)

* CVE-2016-1933: Out of Memory crash when parsing GIF format images

(boo#963634)

* CVE-2016-1935: Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation

(boo#963635)

* CVE-2015-7208/CVE-2016-1939: Firefox allows for control characters to be

set in cookie names (boo#963637)

* CVE-2016-1937: Missing delay following user click events in protocol

handler dialog (boo#963641)

* CVE-2016-1938: Errors in mp_div and mp_exptmod cryptographic functions

in NSS (boo#963731)

* CVE-2016-1942/CVE-2016-1943: Addressbar spoofing attacks (boo#963643)

* CVE-2016-1944/CVE-2016-1945/CVE-2016-1946: Unsafe memory manipulation

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update security fix Mozilla Firefox openSUSE browser 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 Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-128=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-128=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-44.0-12.2

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-44.0-12.2

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-44.0-12.2

MozillaFirefox-devel-44.0-12.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-44.0-12.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-44.0-12.2

libfreebl3-3.21-9.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-3.21-9.1

libsoftokn3-3.21-9.1

libsoftokn3-debuginfo-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nspr-4.11-7.1

mozilla-nspr-debuginfo-4.11-7.1

mozilla-nspr-debugsource-4.11-7.1

mozilla-nspr-devel-4.11-7.1

mozilla-nss-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nss-certs-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nss-debuginfo-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nss-debugsource-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nss-devel-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nss-tools-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo-3.21-9.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-44.0-12.2

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-44.0-12.2

libfreebl3-32bit-3.21-9.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit-3.21-9.1

libsoftokn3-32bit-3.21-9.1

libsoftokn3-debuginfo-32bit-3.21-9.1

mozilla-nspr-32...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7208.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1930.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1931.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1933.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1935.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1937.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1938.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1939.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1942.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1943.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1944.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1945.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1946.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1947.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963633

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963634

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963635

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963637

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963641

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963643

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963644

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963645

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0309-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 .

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