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openSUSE 15.4 & 15.5: SUSE-SU-2023:3949-1 Important Heap Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2023
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The recent MozillaFirefox upgrade addresses critical vulnerabilities affecting openSUSE 15.4 and 15.5. Ensure that you apply the security patches promptly.
This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues: Mozilla Firefox was updated to 115.3.1 ESR, fixing a security issue:

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues:

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 115.3.1 ESR, fixing a security issue:

MFSA 2023-44 (bsc#1215814)

* CVE-2023-5217: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in libvpx

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-ESPOS-2023-3949=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2023-3949=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP2-LTSS-2023-3949=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS 15-SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2023-3949=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP2-2023-3949=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2023-3949=1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2023-3949=1

*...

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Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP3 (aarch64

x86_64)

* MozillaFirefox-debugsource-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* MozillaFirefox-translations-other-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* MozillaFirefox-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* MozillaFirefox-translations-common-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP3 (noarch)

* MozillaFirefox-devel-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (aarch64

x86_64)

* MozillaFirefox-debugsource-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* MozillaFirefox-translations-other-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* MozillaFirefox-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* MozillaFirefox-translations-common-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (noarch)

* MozillaFirefox-devel-115.3.1-150200.152.111.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x

x8...

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References

* #1215814

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5217.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215814

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:3949-1
Rating: important

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