openSUSE 13.1: 2016:2026-1 Important: Mozilla Firefox Security Update
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August 11, 2016
An update that fixes 22 vulnerabilities is now available
Description
Mozilla Firefox was updated to 48.0 to fix security issues, bugs, and
deliver various improvements.
The following major changes are included:
- Process separation (e10s) is enabled for some users - Add-ons that have not been verified and signed by Mozilla will not load
- WebRTC enhancements
- The media parser has been redeveloped using the Rust programming language
- better Canvas performance with speedy Skia support
- Now requires NSS 3.24
The following security issues were fixed: (boo#991809)
- CVE-2016-2835/CVE-2016-2836: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards
- CVE-2016-2830: Favicon network connection can persist when page is closed
- CVE-2016-2838: Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content
- CVE-2016-2839: Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with
FFmpeg 0.10
- CVE-2016-5251: Location bar spoofing via data URLs with
malformed/invalid mediatypes
- CVE-2016-5252: Stack underflow during 2D...
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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 13.1:
zypper in -t patch 2016-960=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List
- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):
MozillaFirefox-48.0-119.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-48.0-119.1
MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-48.0-119.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-48.0-119.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource-48.0-119.1
MozillaFirefox-devel-48.0-119.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common-48.0-119.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other-48.0-119.1
libfreebl3-3.24-83.1
libfreebl3-debuginfo-3.24-83.1
libsoftokn3-3.24-83.1
libsoftokn3-debuginfo-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-certs-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-debuginfo-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-debugsource-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-devel-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-sysinit-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-tools-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo-3.24-83.1
- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):
libfreebl3-32bit-3.24-83.1
libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit-3.24-83.1
libsoftokn3-32bit-3.24-83.1
libsoftokn3-debuginfo-32bit-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-32bit-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-certs-32bit-3.24-83.1
mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-32bit-3.24-83.1
mozilla-...
Read the Full AdvisoryReferences
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0718.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2830.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2835.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2836.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2837.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2838.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2839.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5250.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5251.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5252.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5254.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5255.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5258.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5259.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5260.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5261.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5262.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5263.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5264.html
https://www....
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2026-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE 13.1
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