Security update for MozillaFirefox

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0630-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

MozillaFirefox was updated to the 31.5.3ESR release to fix two security vulnerabilities:

MFSA 2015-29 / CVE-2015-0817: Security researcher ilxu1a reported, through HP Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own contest, a flaw in Mozilla's implementation of typed array bounds checking in JavaScript just-in-time compilation (JIT) and its management of bounds checking for heap access. This flaw can be leveraged into the reading and writing of memory allowing for arbitary code execution on the local system.

MFSA 2015-28 / CVE-2015-0818: Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported, through HP Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own contest, a method to run arbitrary scripts in a privileged context. This bypassed the same-origin policy protections by using a flaw in the processing of SVG format content navigation.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 Desktop 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-148=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-148=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-148=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-148=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64)
    • MozillaFirefox-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-translations-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-debugsource-31.5.3esr-27.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-debugsource-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-devel-31.5.3esr-27.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • MozillaFirefox-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-translations-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-debugsource-31.5.3esr-27.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (x86_64)
    • MozillaFirefox-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-translations-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-31.5.3esr-27.1
    • MozillaFirefox-debugsource-31.5.3esr-27.1

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