Security update for MozillaFirefox

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3476-1
Rating: important
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Cross-References:
CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2018-12383 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2018-12385 ( SUSE ): 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2018-12385 ( NVD ): 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-12386 ( SUSE ): 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-12386 ( NVD ): 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2018-12387 ( SUSE ): 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-12387 ( NVD ): 9.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • Desktop Applications Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for MozillaFirefox to 60.2.2ESR fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

MFSA 2018-24:

  • CVE-2018-12386: A Type confusion in JavaScript allowed remote code execution (bsc#1110506)
  • CVE-2018-12387: Array.prototype.push stack pointer vulnerability may have enabled exploits in the sandboxed content process (bsc#1110507)

MFSA 2018-23:

  • CVE-2018-12385: Fixed a crash in TransportSecurityInfo due to cached data (bsc#1109363)
  • CVE-2018-12383: Setting a master password did not delete unencrypted previously stored passwords (bsc#1107343)

Non security issues fixed:

  • Avoid undefined behavior in IPC fd-passing code (bsc#1094767)
  • Fixed a startup crash affecting users migrating from older ESR releases
  • Clean up old NSS DB files after upgrading
  • Fixed an endianness problem in bindgen's handling of bitfields, which was causing Firefox to crash on startup on big-endian machines. Also, updates the cc crate, which was buggy in the version that was originally vendored in. (bsc#1109465)

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:

  • Desktop Applications Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-2018-2482=1

Package List:

  • Desktop Applications Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • MozillaFirefox-translations-common-60.2.2-3.13.3
    • MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-60.2.2-3.13.3
    • MozillaFirefox-60.2.2-3.13.3
    • MozillaFirefox-debugsource-60.2.2-3.13.3
    • MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE-60-4.5.3
    • MozillaFirefox-translations-other-60.2.2-3.13.3
  • Desktop Applications Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le x86_64)
    • MozillaFirefox-devel-60.2.2-3.13.3

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