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SUSE: 2019:0336-2 Important: MozillaFirefox Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey April 12, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
MozillaFirefox patch for SUSE enhances security by tackling severe vulnerabilities involving memory integrity and privilege escalation threats.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: CVE-2018-18500: Fixed a use-after-free parsing HTML5 stream (boo#1122983). CVE-2018-18501: Fixed multiple memory safety bugs (boo#1122983). CVE-2018-18505: Fixed a privilege escalation through IPC channel messages (boo#1122983). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE 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: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2019-336=1 Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 (x86_64): MozillaFirefox-60.5.0esr-109.58.3 MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE-60-32.5.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation vulnerability important SUSE memory safety MozillaFirefox

References

#1120374 #1122983

Cross- CVE-2018-18500 CVE-2018-18501 CVE-2018-18505

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18500.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18501.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18505.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1120374

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1122983

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:0336-2
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation vulnerability important SUSE memory safety MozillaFirefox

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