[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:0820-1: important: Security update for MozillaFirefox

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for MozillaFirefox

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0820-1

Rating: important

References: #969894

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS

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An update that contains security fixes can now be

installed. It includes two new package versions.

 

Description:

 

 

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 38.7.0 ESR, fixing the following security

issues:

 

* MFSA 2016-16/CVE-2016-1952/CVE-2016-1953: Miscellaneous memory

safety hazards (rv:45.0 / rv:38.7)

* MFSA 2016-17/CVE-2016-1954: Local file overwriting and potential

privilege escalation through CSP reports

* MFSA 2016-20/CVE-2016-1957: Memory leak in libstagefright when

deleting an array during MP4 processing

* MFSA 2016-21/CVE-2016-1958: Displayed page address can be overridden

* MFSA 2016-23/CVE-2016-1960: Use-after-free in HTML5 string parser

* MFSA 2016-24/CVE-2016-1961: Use-after-free in SetBody

* MFSA 2016-25/CVE-2016-1962: Use-after-free when using multiple

WebRTC data channels

* MFSA 2016-27/CVE-2016-1964: Use-after-free during XML transformations

* MFSA 2016-28/CVE-2016-1965: Addressbar spoofing though history

navigation and Location protocol property

* MFSA 2016-31/CVE-2016-1966: Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI

plugin

* MFSA 2016-34/CVE-2016-1974: Out-of-bounds read in HTML parser

following a failed allocation

* MFSA 2016-35/CVE-2016-1950: Buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in

NSS

* MFSA 2016-37/CVE-2016-1977/CVE-2016-2790/CVE-2016-2791/

CVE-2016-2792/CVE-2016-2793/CVE-2016-2794/CVE-2016-2795/

CVE-2016-2796/CVE-2016-2797/CVE-2016-2798/CVE-2016-2799/

CVE-2016-2800/CVE-2016-2801/CVE-2016-2802: Font vulnerabilities in

the Graphite 2 library.

 

Mozilla NSPR was updated to version 4.12, fixing following bugs:

 

* Added a PR_GetEnvSecure function, which attempts to detect if the

program is being executed with elevated privileges, and returns NULL

if detected. It is recommended to use this function in general

purpose library code.

* Fixed a memory allocation bug related to the PR_*printf functions

* Exported API PR_DuplicateEnvironment, which had already been added

in NSPR 4.10.9

* Several minor correctness and compatibility fixes.

 

Mozilla NSS was updated to fix security issues:

 

* MFSA 2016-15/CVE-2016-1978: Use-after-free in NSS during SSL

connections in low memory

* MFSA 2016-35/CVE-2016-1950: Buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in

NSS

* MFSA 2016-36/CVE-2016-1979: Use-after-free during processing of DER

encoded keys in NSS.

 

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.20.2 and 4.12]:

 

mozilla-nspr-4.12-0.5.1

mozilla-nspr-devel-4.12-0.5.1

mozilla-nss-3.20.2-0.7.2

mozilla-nss-devel-3.20.2-0.7.2

mozilla-nss-tools-3.20.2-0.7.2

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS (s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.20.2 and 4.12]:

 

mozilla-nspr-32bit-4.12-0.5.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-3.20.2-0.7.2

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS (i586 s390x):

 

MozillaFirefox-38.7.0esr-0.5.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-38.7.0esr-0.5.1

 

 

References:

 

https://bugzilla.suse.com/969894

https://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=482a54f33ffb2bd9e847625a26c86780

 

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