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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:1184-1 Important MozillaFirefox Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey August 23, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest MozillaFirefox security patch resolves memory corruption vulnerabilities, providing detailed guidance for Fedora users.
An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities, contains one feature is now available

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues:

Firefox Extended Support Release 78.13.0 ESR (MFSA 2021-34, bsc#1188891):

- CVE-2021-29986: Race condition when resolving DNS names could have led

to memory corruption

- CVE-2021-29988: Memory corruption as a result of incorrect style

treatment

- CVE-2021-29984: Incorrect instruction reordering during JIT optimization

- CVE-2021-29980: Uninitialized memory in a canvas object could have led

to memory corruption

- CVE-2021-29985: Use-after-free media channels

- CVE-2021-29989: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 91 and Firefox ESR

78.13

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

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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-2021-1184=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-78.13.0-lp152.2.64.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-78.13.0-lp152.2.64.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-78.13.0-lp152.2.64.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-78.13.0-lp152.2.64.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-78.13.0-lp152.2.64.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-78.13.0-lp152.2.64.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-78.13.0-lp152.2.64.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-78.13.0-lp152.2.64.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29980.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29984.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29985.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29986.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29988.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29989.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188891

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1184-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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