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openSUSE: 2021-0056-1 critical: MozillaFirefox Use-after-free

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical security patch released for MozillaFirefox, Announcement ID openSUSE-SU-2021:0056-1, addressing urgent vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues:

- Firefox Extended Support Release 78.6.1 ESR

* Fixed: Critical security issue MFSA 2021-01 (bsc#1180623)

* CVE-2020-16044 Use-after-free write when handling a malicious

COOKIE-ECHO SCTP chunk

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-56=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-78.6.1-lp152.2.40.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-78.6.1-lp152.2.40.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-78.6.1-lp152.2.40.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-78.6.1-lp152.2.40.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-78.6.1-lp152.2.40.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-78.6.1-lp152.2.40.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-78.6.1-lp152.2.40.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-78.6.1-lp152.2.40.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16044.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180623

Severity
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Critical

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0056-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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