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openSUSE: 2016:0731-1 Important: MozillaFirefox Security Issues

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest patch for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, and mozilla-nss resolves critical vulnerabilities within openSUSE systems, enhancing security integrity.
An update that fixes 40 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss fixes the

following issues:

MozillaFirefox was updated to Firefox 45.0 (boo#969894)

* requires NSPR 4.12 / NSS 3.21.1

* Instant browser tab sharing through Hello

* Synced Tabs button in button bar

* Tabs synced via Firefox Accounts from other devices are now shown in

dropdown area of Awesome Bar when searching

* Introduce a new preference (network.dns.blockDotOnion) to allow blocking

.onion at the DNS level

* Tab Groups (Panorama) feature removed

* MFSA 2016-16/CVE-2016-1952/CVE-2016-1953 Miscellaneous memory safety

hazards

* MFSA 2016-17/CVE-2016-1954 (bmo#1243178) Local file overwriting and

potential privilege escalation through CSP reports

* MFSA 2016-18/CVE-2016-1955 (bmo#1208946) CSP reports fail to strip

location information for embedded iframe pages

* MFSA 2016-19/CVE-2016-1956 (bmo#1199923) Linux video memory DOS with

Intel drivers * MFSA...

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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-2016-332=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-332=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-45.0-18.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-45.0-18.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-45.0-18.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-45.0-18.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-45.0-18.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-45.0-18.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-45.0-18.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-45.0-18.1

libfreebl3-3.21.1-12.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-3.21.1-12.1

libsoftokn3-3.21.1-12.1

libsoftokn3-debuginfo-3.21.1-12.1

mozilla-nspr-4.12-10.1

mozilla-nspr-debuginfo-4.12-10.1

mozilla-nspr-debugsource-4.12-10.1

mozilla-nspr-devel-4.12-10.1

mozilla-nss-3.21.1-12.1

mozilla-nss-certs-3.21.1-12.1

mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-3.21.1-12.1

mozilla-nss-debuginfo-3.21.1-12.1

mozilla-nss-debugsource-3.21.1-12.1

mozilla-nss-devel-3.21.1-12.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-3.21.1-12.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.21.1-12.1

mozilla-nss-tools-3.21.1-12.1

mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo-3.21.1-12.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

libfreebl3-32bit-3.21.1-12.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit-3.21.1-12.1

libsoftokn3-32bit-3.21.1-...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1950.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1952.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1953.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1954.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1955.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1956.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1957.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1958.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1959.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1960.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1961.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1962.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1963.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1964.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1965.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1966.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1967.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1968.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1970.html

https://www....

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0731-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 .

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