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openSUSE: 2016:1778-1 Important: Thunderbird Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2016
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The latest Mozilla Thunderbird release tackles several significant security issues, providing crucial patches for users on openSUSE.
An update that fixes 28 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update contains Mozilla Thunderbird 45.2. (boo#983549)

It fixes security issues mostly affecting the e-mail program when used in

a browser context, such as viewing a web page or HTMl formatted e-mail.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

- CVE-2016-2818, CVE-2016-2815: Memory safety bugs (boo#983549,

MFSA2016-49)

Contains the following security fixes from the 45.1 release: (boo#977333)

- CVE-2016-2806, CVE-2016-2807: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards

(boo#977375, boo#977376, MFSA 2016-39)

Contains the following security fixes from the 45.0 release: (boo#969894)

- CVE-2016-1952, CVE-2016-1953: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA

2016-16)

- CVE-2016-1954: Local file overwriting and potential privilege escalation

through CSP reports (MFSA 2016-17)

- CVE-2016-1955: CSP reports fail to strip location information for

embedded iframe pages (MFSA 2016-18)

- CVE-2016-1956: Linux video memory DOS with Intel...

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update critical fix memory safety Mozilla Thunderbird openSUSE update patch

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-2016-851=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-851=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaThunderbird-45.2-16.1

MozillaThunderbird-buildsymbols-45.2-16.1

MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-45.2-16.1

MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-45.2-16.1

MozillaThunderbird-devel-45.2-16.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-45.2-16.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-45.2-16.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaThunderbird-45.2-43.1

MozillaThunderbird-buildsymbols-45.2-43.1

MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-45.2-43.1

MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-45.2-43.1

MozillaThunderbird-devel-45.2-43.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-45.2-43.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-45.2-43.1

References

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-2016-1960.html

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

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1974.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1977.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2790.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2791.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2792.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2793.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2794.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2795.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2796.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2797.html

https://www....

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1778-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 .

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update critical fix memory safety Mozilla Thunderbird openSUSE update patch

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