[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:2026-1: important: Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss

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openSUSE Security Update: Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2026-1

Rating: important

References: #984126 #984403 #984637 #986541 #991809

Cross-References: CVE-2016-0718 CVE-2016-2830 CVE-2016-2835

CVE-2016-2836 CVE-2016-2837 CVE-2016-2838

CVE-2016-2839 CVE-2016-5250 CVE-2016-5251

CVE-2016-5252 CVE-2016-5254 CVE-2016-5255

CVE-2016-5258 CVE-2016-5259 CVE-2016-5260

CVE-2016-5261 CVE-2016-5262 CVE-2016-5263

CVE-2016-5264 CVE-2016-5265 CVE-2016-5266

CVE-2016-5268

Affected Products:

openSUSE 13.1

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An update that fixes 22 vulnerabilities is now available.

 

Description:

 

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 48.0 to fix security issues, bugs, and

deliver various improvements.

 

The following major changes are included:

 

- Process separation (e10s) is enabled for some users

- Add-ons that have not been verified and signed by Mozilla will not load

- WebRTC enhancements

- The media parser has been redeveloped using the Rust programming language

- better Canvas performance with speedy Skia support

- Now requires NSS 3.24

 

The following security issues were fixed: (boo#991809)

 

- CVE-2016-2835/CVE-2016-2836: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards

- CVE-2016-2830: Favicon network connection can persist when page is closed

- CVE-2016-2838: Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content

- CVE-2016-2839: Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with

FFmpeg 0.10

- CVE-2016-5251: Location bar spoofing via data URLs with

malformed/invalid mediatypes

- CVE-2016-5252: Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering

- CVE-2016-0718: Out-of-bounds read during XML parsing in Expat library

- CVE-2016-5254: Use-after-free when using alt key and toplevel menus

- CVE-2016-5255: Crash in incremental garbage collection in JavaScript

- CVE-2016-5258: Use-after-free in DTLS during WebRTC session shutdown

- CVE-2016-5259: Use-after-free in service workers with nested sync events

- CVE-2016-5260: Form input type change from password to text can store

plain text password in session restore file

- CVE-2016-5261: Integer overflow in WebSockets during data buffering

- CVE-2016-5262: Scripts on marquee tag can execute in sandboxed iframes

- CVE-2016-2837: Buffer overflow in ClearKey Content Decryption Module

(CDM) during video playback

- CVE-2016-5263: Type confusion in display transformation

- CVE-2016-5264: Use-after-free when applying SVG effects

- CVE-2016-5265: Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and

saved shortcut file

- CVE-2016-5266: Information disclosure and local file manipulation

through drag and drop

- CVE-2016-5268: Spoofing attack through text injection into internal

error pages

- CVE-2016-5250: Information disclosure through Resource Timing API during

page navigation

 

The following non-security changes are included:

 

- The AppData description and screenshots were updated.

- Fix Firefox crash on startup on i586 (boo#986541)

- The Selenium WebDriver may have caused Firefox to crash at startup

- fix build issues with gcc/binutils combination used in Leap 42.2

(boo#984637)

- Fix running on 48bit va aarch64 (boo#984126)

- fix XUL dialog button order under KDE session (boo#984403)

 

Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.24 as a dependency.

 

Changes in mozilla-nss:

 

- NSS softoken updated with latest NIST guidance

- NSS softoken updated to allow NSS to run in FIPS Level 1 (no password)

- Various added and deprecated functions

- Remove most code related to SSL v2, including the ability to actively

send a SSLv2-compatible client hello.

- Protect against the Cachebleed attack.

- Disable support for DTLS compression.

- Improve support for TLS 1.3. This includes support for DTLS 1.3.

(experimental)

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- openSUSE 13.1:

 

zypper in -t patch 2016-960=1

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

 

MozillaFirefox-48.0-119.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-48.0-119.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-48.0-119.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-48.0-119.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-48.0-119.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-48.0-119.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-48.0-119.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-48.0-119.1

libfreebl3-3.24-83.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-3.24-83.1

libsoftokn3-3.24-83.1

libsoftokn3-debuginfo-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-certs-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-debuginfo-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-debugsource-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-devel-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-tools-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo-3.24-83.1

 

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

 

libfreebl3-32bit-3.24-83.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit-3.24-83.1

libsoftokn3-32bit-3.24-83.1

libsoftokn3-debuginfo-32bit-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-certs-32bit-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-32bit-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-debuginfo-32bit-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bit-3.24-83.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-32bit-3.24-83.1

 

 

References:

 

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0718.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2830.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2835.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2836.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2837.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2838.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2839.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5250.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5251.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5252.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5254.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5255.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5258.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5259.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5260.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5261.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5262.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5263.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5264.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5265.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5266.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5268.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/984126

https://bugzilla.suse.com/984403

https://bugzilla.suse.com/984637

https://bugzilla.suse.com/986541

https://bugzilla.suse.com/991809

 

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