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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0487-1 Critical: MozillaFirefox Patch

opensuse
Calendar Grey March 30, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Significant openSUSE upgrade tackles various MozillaFirefox security issues along with comprehensive setup guidelines.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues:

- Firefox was updated to 78.9.0 ESR (MFSA 2021-11, bsc#1183942)

* CVE-2021-23981: Texture upload into an unbound backing buffer resulted

in an out-of-bound read

* CVE-2021-23982: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a

malicious webpage

* CVE-2021-23984: Malicious extensions could have spoofed popup

information

* CVE-2021-23987: Memory safety bugs

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical patch important security patch browser memory safety openSUSE MozillaFirefox openSUSE Leap

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-2021-487=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23981.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23982.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23984.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23987.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183942

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0487-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical patch important security patch browser memory safety openSUSE MozillaFirefox openSUSE Leap

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