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openSUSE Leap 42.1: 2016:2250-2 Critical: Firefox Security Updates

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Calendar Grey September 6, 2016
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This release resolves 15 critical vulnerabilities, greatly improving Firefox's protection for Ubuntu 20.04 users.
An update that fixes 20 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

Chromium was updated to 53.0.2785.89 to fix a number of security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed: (boo#996648)

- CVE-2016-5147: Universal XSS in Blink.

- CVE-2016-5148: Universal XSS in Blink.

- CVE-2016-5149: Script injection in extensions.

- CVE-2016-5150: Use after free in Blink.

- CVE-2016-5151: Use after free in PDFium.

- CVE-2016-5152: Heap overflow in PDFium.

- CVE-2016-5153: Use after destruction in Blink.

- CVE-2016-5154: Heap overflow in PDFium.

- CVE-2016-5155: Address bar spoofing.

- CVE-2016-5156: Use after free in event bindings.

- CVE-2016-5157: Heap overflow in PDFium.

- CVE-2016-5158: Heap overflow in PDFium.

- CVE-2016-5159: Heap overflow in PDFium.

- CVE-2016-5161: Type confusion in Blink.

- CVE-2016-5162: Extensions web accessible resources bypass.

- CVE-2016-5163: Address bar spoofing.

- CVE-2016-5164: Universal XSS using DevTools.

- CVE-2016-5165: Script injection in DevTools.

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security advisory patch management security issues important update openSUSE XSS fix Chromium

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 5568=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

chromedriver-53.0.2785.89-68.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-53.0.2785.89-68.1

chromium-53.0.2785.89-68.1

chromium-debuginfo-53.0.2785.89-68.1

chromium-desktop-gnome-53.0.2785.89-68.1

chromium-desktop-kde-53.0.2785.89-68.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-53.0.2785.89-68.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-53.0.2785.89-68.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5147.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5148.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5149.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5150.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5151.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5152.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5153.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5154.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5155.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5156.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5157.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5158.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5159.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5160.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5161.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5162.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5163.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5164.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5165.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2250-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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