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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2019:1595-1 Important: MozillaFirefox Sandbox Escape

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A crucial patch has been released for MozillaFirefox on openSUSE Leap 15.1. Apply the update immediately to enhance your security.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues:

- Mozilla Firefox Firefox 60.7.2 MFSA 2019-19 (bsc#1138872)

- CVE-2019-11708: Fix sandbox escape using Prompt:Open.

* Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC

message between child and parent processes could result in the

non-sandboxed parent process opening web content chosen by a

compromised child process. When combined with additional

vulnerabilities this could result in executing arbitrary code on the

user's computer.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1595=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-60.7.2-lp151.2.7.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-60.7.2-lp151.2.7.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-60.7.2-lp151.2.7.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-60.7.2-lp151.2.7.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-60.7.2-lp151.2.7.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-60.7.2-lp151.2.7.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-60.7.2-lp151.2.7.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-60.7.2-lp151.2.7.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11708.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1138872

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1595-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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