Security update for Mozilla Firefox
SUSE Security Update: Security update for Mozilla Firefox
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.
Security Issues:
* CVE-2015-0817
* CVE-2015-0818
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2015:0593-1 |
| Rating: | important |
| References: | #923534 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. It includes one version update.
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.
Security Issues:
* CVE-2015-0817
* CVE-2015-0818
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch sdksp3-firefox-20150323=10524 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-firefox-20150323=10524 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-firefox-20150323=10524 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch sledsp3-firefox-20150323=10524
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
- MozillaFirefox-devel-31.5.3esr-0.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 31.5.3esr]:
- MozillaFirefox-31.5.3esr-0.8.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-31.5.3esr-0.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 31.5.3esr]:
- MozillaFirefox-31.5.3esr-0.8.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-31.5.3esr-0.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 31.5.3esr]:
- MozillaFirefox-31.5.3esr-0.8.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-31.5.3esr-0.8.1
References:
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0817.html
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0818.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/923534
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=c769ca2ba75baf304d03ef988f02dabf