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openSUSE 15.2: 0373-1 Important MozillaFirefox Memory Safety Fix

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Calendar Grey March 3, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security patch for MozillaFirefox is now accessible in openSUSE, targeting critical memory vulnerability and content-related concerns.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues:

- Firefox Extended Support Release 78.8.0 ESR

* Fixed: Various stability, functionality, and security fixes MFSA

2021-08 (bsc#1182614)

* CVE-2021-23969: Content Security Policy violation report could have

contained the destination of a redirect

* CVE-2021-23968: Content Security Policy violation report could have

contained the destination of a redirect

* CVE-2021-23973: MediaError message property could have leaked

information about cross-origin resources

* CVE-2021-23978: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 86 and Firefox ESR

78.8

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update software update important memory issue Firefox important issue memory safety openSUSE safety issue 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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-373=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-78.8.0-lp152.2.49.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-78.8.0-lp152.2.49.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-78.8.0-lp152.2.49.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-78.8.0-lp152.2.49.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-78.8.0-lp152.2.49.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-78.8.0-lp152.2.49.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-78.8.0-lp152.2.49.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-78.8.0-lp152.2.49.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23968.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23969.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23973.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23978.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182357

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182614

Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0373-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update software update important memory issue Firefox important issue memory safety openSUSE safety issue MozillaFirefox

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