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openSUSE: 2016:2994-1 Critical: MozillaFirefox Remote Code Exec Issue

opensuse
Calendar Grey December 4, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Debian Security Announcement: ChromeBrowser addresses severe vulnerabilities in releases 90.0 and 90.1. Keep your system safe!
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

MozillaFirefox is updated to version 50.0.2 which fixes the following

issues:

* Firefox crashed with 3rd party Chinese IME when using IME text (fixed

in version 50.0.1)

* Redirection from an HTTP connection to a data: URL could inherit wrong

origin after an HTTP redirect (fixed in version 50.0.1, bmo#1317641,

MFSA 2016-91, boo#1012807, CVE-2016-9078)

* Maliciously crafted SVG animations could cause remote code execution

(fixed in version 50.0.2, bmo#1321066, MFSA 2016-92, boo##1012964,

CVE-2016-9079)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update remote code execution important openSUSE MozillaFirefox

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 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1392=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1392=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1392=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-50.0.2-42.2

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-50.0.2-42.2

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-50.0.2-42.2

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-50.0.2-42.2

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-50.0.2-42.2

MozillaFirefox-devel-50.0.2-42.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-50.0.2-42.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-50.0.2-42.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-50.0.2-42.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-50.0.2-42.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-50.0.2-42.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-50.0.2-42.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-50.0.2-42.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-50.0.2-42.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-50.0.2-42.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-50.0.2-42.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-50.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-50.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-50.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-50.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-50.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-50.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-50.0.2-91.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-othe...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9078.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9079.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1012807

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1012964

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2994-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update remote code execution important openSUSE MozillaFirefox

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