openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / MozillaThunderbird / mozilla-nspr (openSUSE-2015-290)
High Nessus Plugin ID 82651
Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
Description
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird were updated to fix several important vulnerabilities.
Mozilla Firefox was updated to 37.0.1. Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 31.6.0. mozilla-nspr was updated to 4.10.8 as a dependency.
The following vulnerabilities were fixed in Mozilla Firefox :
- Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2015-30/CVE-2015-0814/CVE-2015-0815 boo#925392)
- Use-after-free when using the Fluendo MP3 GStreamer plugin (MFSA 2015-31/CVE-2015-0813 bmo#1106596 boo#925393)
- Add-on lightweight theme installation approval bypassed through MITM attack (MFSA 2015-32/CVE-2015-0812 bmo#1128126 boo#925394)
- resource:// documents can load privileged pages (MFSA 2015-33/CVE-2015-0816 bmo#1144991 boo#925395)
- Out of bounds read in QCMS library (MFSA-2015-34/CVE-2015-0811 bmo#1132468 boo#925396)
- Incorrect memory management for simple-type arrays in WebRTC (MFSA-2015-36/CVE-2015-0808 bmo#1109552 boo#925397)
- CORS requests should not follow 30x redirections after preflight (MFSA-2015-37/CVE-2015-0807 bmo#1111834 boo#925398)
- Memory corruption crashes in Off Main Thread Compositing (MFSA-2015-38/CVE-2015-0805/CVE-2015-0806 bmo#1135511 bmo#1099437 boo#925399)
- Use-after-free due to type confusion flaws (MFSA-2015-39/CVE-2015-0803/CVE-2015-0804 (mo#1134560 boo#925400)
- Same-origin bypass through anchor navigation (MFSA-2015-40/CVE-2015-0801 bmo#1146339 boo#925401)
- Windows can retain access to privileged content on navigation to unprivileged pages (MFSA-2015-42/CVE-2015-0802 bmo#1124898 boo#925402)
The following vulnerability was fixed in functionality that was not released as an update to openSUSE :
- Certificate verification could be bypassed through the HTTP/2 Alt-Svc header (MFSA 2015-44/CVE-2015-0799 bmo#1148328 bnc#926166)
The functionality added in 37.0 and thus removed in 37.0.1 was :
- Opportunistically encrypt HTTP traffic where the server supports HTTP/2 AltSvc
The following functionality was added or updated in Mozilla Firefox :
- Heartbeat user rating system
- Yandex set as default search provider for the Turkish locale
- Bing search now uses HTTPS for secure searching
- Improved protection against site impersonation via OneCRL centralized certificate revocation
- some more behaviour changes for TLS
The following vulnerabilities were fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird :
- Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2015-30/CVE-2015-0814/CVE-2015-0815 boo#925392)
- Use-after-free when using the Fluendo MP3 GStreamer plugin (MFSA 2015-31/CVE-2015-0813 bmo#1106596 boo#925393)
- resource:// documents can load privileged pages (MFSA 2015-33/CVE-2015-0816 bmo#1144991 boo#925395)
- CORS requests should not follow 30x redirections after preflight (MFSA-2015-37/CVE-2015-0807 bmo#1111834 boo#925398)
- Same-origin bypass through anchor navigation (MFSA-2015-40/CVE-2015-0801 bmo#1146339 boo#925401)
mozilla-nspr was updated to 4.10.8 as a dependency and received the following changes :
- bmo#573192: remove the stack-based PRFileDesc cache.
- bmo#756047: check for _POSIX_THREAD_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING > 0 instead of only checking if the identifier is defined.
- bmo#1089908: Fix variable shadowing in _PR_MD_LOCKFILE.
Use PR_ARRAY_SIZE to get the array size of
_PR_RUNQ(t->cpu).
- bmo#1106600: Replace PR_ASSERT(!'foo') with PR_NOT_REACHED('foo') to fix clang -Wstring-conversion warnings.
Solution
Update the affected MozillaFirefox / MozillaThunderbird / mozilla-nspr packages.