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SUSE: 2015:1268-2 Important: MozillaFirefox Security Issues

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2015
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SUSE security update addresses 17 issues in MozillaFirefox and related components. Essential for maintaining system integrity.
An update that fixes 17 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr and mozilla-nss were updated to fix 17 security issues. For more details please check the changelogs. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2015-2724/CVE-2015-2725/CVE-2015-2726: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (bsc#935979). - CVE-2015-2728: Type confusion in Indexed Database Manager (bsc#935979). - CVE-2015-2730: ECDSA signature validation fails to handle some signatures correctly (bsc#935979). - CVE-2015-2722/CVE-2015-2733: Use-after-free in workers while using XMLHttpRequest (bsc#935979). - CVE-2015-2734/CVE-2015-2735/CVE-2015-2736/CVE-2015-2737/CVE-2015-2738/CVE-2 015-2739/CVE-2015-2740: Vulnerabilities found through code inspection (bsc#935979). - CVE-2015-2743: Privilege escalation in PDF.js (bsc#935979).

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update important MozillaFirefox mozilla-nss mozilla-nspr

References

#908275 #935033 #935979

Cross- CVE-2015-2721 CVE-2015-2722 CVE-2015-2724

CVE-2015-2725 CVE-2015-2726 CVE-2015-2728

CVE-2015-2730 CVE-2015-2733 CVE-2015-2734

CVE-2015-2735 CVE-2015-2736 CVE-2015-2737

CVE-2015-2738 CVE-2015-2739 CVE-2015-2740

CVE-2015-2743 CVE-2015-4000

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2721.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1268-2
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update important MozillaFirefox mozilla-nss mozilla-nspr

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