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SUSE: 2025:1414-1 critical: MozillaFirefox privilege escalation

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* bsc#1241621 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-2817

Summary

## This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues: * Firefox Extended Support Release 128.10.0 ESR MFSA 2025-29 (bsc#1241621): * CVE-2025-2817: Potential privilege escalation in Firefox Updater * MFSA-RESERVE-2025-193709: WebGL shader attribute memory corruption in Firefox for macOS * MFSA-RESERVE-2025-1958350: Process isolation bypass using `javascript:` URI links in cross-origin frames * MFSA-RESERVE-2025-1949994: Potential local code execution in "copy as cURL" command * MFSA-RESERVE-2025-1952465: Unsafe attribute access during XPath parsing * MFSA-RESERVE-2025-3: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 138, Thunderbird 138, Firefox ESR 128.10, and Thunderbird 128.10 * MFSA-RESERVE-2025-7: Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox ESR 128.10 and Thunderbird 128.10 ## Patch Instructions:

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References

* bsc#1241621

Cross-

* CVE-2025-2817

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-2817 ( SUSE ): 8.5

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-2817 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-2817 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

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* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2817.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241621

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1414-1
Release Date: 2025-04-30T06:59:28Z
Rating: important

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