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openSUSE: 2020:1555-1 Important: MozillaFirefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A critical update for openSUSE tackles various vulnerabilities in MozillaFirefox. Read on for specifics and guidance on implementation.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues:

-Firefox was updated to 78.3.0 ESR (bsc#1176756, MFSA 2020-43)

- CVE-2020-15677: Download origin spoofing via redirect

- CVE-2020-15676: Fixed an XSS when pasting attacker-controlled data

into a contenteditable element

- CVE-2020-15678: When recursing through layers while scrolling, an

iterator may have become invalid, resulting in a potential

use-after-free scenario

- CVE-2020-15673: Fixed memory safety bugs

- Enhance fix for wayland-detection (bsc#1174420)

- Attempt to fix langpack-parallelization by introducing separate

obj-dirs for each lang (bsc#1173986, bsc#1167976)

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory cross-site scripting important fix memory safety openSUSE MozillaFirefox

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-2020-1555=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-78.3.0-lp151.2.69.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-78.3.0-lp151.2.69.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-78.3.0-lp151.2.69.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-78.3.0-lp151.2.69.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-78.3.0-lp151.2.69.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-78.3.0-lp151.2.69.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-78.3.0-lp151.2.69.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-78.3.0-lp151.2.69.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15673.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15676.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15677.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15678.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1167976

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173986

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174420

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176756

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1555-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory cross-site scripting important fix memory safety openSUSE MozillaFirefox

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