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openSUSE Leap 42.3: Security Update 2018:1212-1 Firefox Fixes

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2018
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Important openSUSE security patch released for Mozilla Firefox, tackling critical vulnerabilities with necessary repairs.
An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for Mozilla Firefox to 52.8.0 ESR fixes the following issues:

Security issssue fixed: (bsc#1092548, MFSA 2018-12):

- CVE-2018-5183: Backport critical security fixes in Skia

- CVE-2018-5154: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths

- CVE-2018-5155: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths

- CVE-2018-5157: Same-origin bypass of PDF Viewer to view protected PDF

files

- CVE-2018-5158: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer

- CVE-2018-5159: Integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in Skia

- CVE-2018-5168: Lightweight themes can be installed without user

interaction

- CVE-2018-5178: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion

through legacy extension

- CVE-2018-5150: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR

52.8

The following non-security changes are included:

- Various stability and regression fixes

- Performance improvements to the Safe Browsing service...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-452=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-52.8.0-89.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-52.8.0-89.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-52.8.0-89.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-89.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-52.8.0-89.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-52.8.0-89.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-52.8.0-89.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-52.8.0-89.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5150.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5154.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5155.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5157.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5158.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5159.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5168.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5178.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5183.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092548

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1212-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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