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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2020:1574-1 Important: MozillaFirefox Update

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE Security Patch: MozillaFirefox addresses 4 critical vulnerabilities, including memory integrity and cross-site scripting threats.
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 XSS important memory safety openSUSE MozillaFirefox origin spoofing

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1574=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-78.3.0-lp152.2.21.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-78.3.0-lp152.2.21.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-78.3.0-lp152.2.21.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-78.3.0-lp152.2.21.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-78.3.0-lp152.2.21.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-78.3.0-lp152.2.21.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-78.3.0-lp152.2.21.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-78.3.0-lp152.2.21.1

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-2020:1574-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory XSS important memory safety openSUSE MozillaFirefox origin spoofing

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