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SUSE: 2020:14290-1 Important: MozillaFirefox Update for Security Issues

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Calendar Grey February 24, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
The latest update for Firefox tackles various vulnerabilities, enhancing both performance and protection for users.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues: Firefox was updated to version 68.5.0 ESR (bsc#1163368). Security issues fixed: - CVE-2020-6796: Fixed a missing bounds check on shared memory in the parent process (bsc#1163368). - CVE-2020-6798: Fixed a JavaScript code injection issue caused by the incorrect parsing of template tags (bsc#1163368). - CVE-2020-6799: Fixed a local arbitrary code execution issue when handling PDF links from other applications (bsc#1163368). - CVE-2020-6800: Fixed several memory safety bugs (bsc#1163368). Non-security issues fixed: - Fixed various issues opening files with spaces in their path (bmo#1601905, bmo#1602726). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

References

#1161799 #1163368

Cross- CVE-2020-6796 CVE-2020-6797 CVE-2020-6798

CVE-2020-6799 CVE-2020-6800

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6796.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6797.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6798.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6799.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6800.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1161799

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1163368

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:14290-1
Rating: important

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