Explore top 10 tips to secure your open-source projects now. Read More

×
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 573
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 573

openSUSE Leap 42.3 Security Advisory: Mozilla Firefox Memory Safety Issues

opensuse
Calendar Grey October 25, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Check for the recent openSUSE security patch addressing 7 critical vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox. Keep your system protected and updated!
An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for Mozilla Firefox to version 60.3.0esr fixes security issues

and stability bugs.

The following security issues were fixed (MFSA 2018-27, boo#1112852):

- CVE-2018-12392: Crash with nested event loops

- CVE-2018-12393: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion while loading

JavaScript

- CVE-2018-12395: WebExtension bypass of domain restrictions through

header rewriting

- CVE-2018-12396: WebExtension content scripts can execute in disallowed

contexts

- CVE-2018-12397: WebExtension local file access vulnerability

- CVE-2018-12389: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 60.3

- CVE-2018-12390: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 63 and Firefox ESR

60.3

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update security issues important fix memory safety Mozilla Firefox openSUSE

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-2018-1268=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1268=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-60.3.0-122.2

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-60.3.0-122.2

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-60.3.0-122.2

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-60.3.0-122.2

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-60.3.0-122.2

MozillaFirefox-devel-60.3.0-122.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-60.3.0-122.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-60.3.0-122.2

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-60.3.0-lp150.3.27.2

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-60.3.0-lp150.3.27.2

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-60.3.0-lp150.3.27.2

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-60.3.0-lp150.3.27.2

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-60.3.0-lp150.3.27.2

MozillaFirefox-devel-60.3.0-lp150.3.27.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-60.3.0-lp150.3.27.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-60.3.0-lp150.3.27.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12389.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12390.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12392.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12393.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12395.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12396.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12397.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1112852

--

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3435-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update security issues important fix memory safety Mozilla Firefox openSUSE

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.