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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2020:0230-1 Important: MozillaFirefox Update

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2020
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The latest release of Mozilla Firefox addresses five critical security flaws, enhancing overall user protection.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues:

- Firefox Extended Support Release 68.5.0 ESR

* Fixed: Various stability and security fixes

- Mozilla Firefox ESR68.5 MFSA 2020-06 (bsc#1163368)

* CVE-2020-6796 (bmo#1610426) Missing bounds check on shared memory read

in the parent process

* CVE-2020-6797 (bmo#1596668) Extensions granted downloads.open

permission could open arbitrary applications on Mac OSX

* CVE-2020-6798 (bmo#1602944) Incorrect parsing of template tag could

result in JavaScript injection

* CVE-2020-6799 (bmo#1606596) Arbitrary code execution when opening pdf

links from other applications, when Firefox is configured as default

pdf reader

* CVE-2020-6800 (bmo#1595786, bmo#1596706, bmo#1598543, bmo#1604851,

bmo#1605777, bmo#1608580, bmo#1608785) Memory safety bugs fixed in

Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5

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

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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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-230=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-68.5.0-lp151.2.30.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-68.5.0-lp151.2.30.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-68.5.0-lp151.2.30.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-68.5.0-lp151.2.30.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-68.5.0-lp151.2.30.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-68.5.0-lp151.2.30.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-68.5.0-lp151.2.30.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-68.5.0-lp151.2.30.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6796.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6797.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6798.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6799.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6800.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1163368

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0230-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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