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HistoryFeb 08, 2014 - 9:04 a.m.

Mozilla Firefox 27 release (important)

2014-02-0809:04:14
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Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 27. Mozilla
Seamonkey was updated to 2.24, fixing similar issues as
Firefox 27. Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 24.3.0,
fixing similar issues as Firefox 27.

The Firefox 27 release brings TLS 1.2 support as a major
security feature.

It also fixes following security issues:

  • MFSA 2014-01/CVE-2014-1477/CVE-2014-1478 Miscellaneous
    memory safety hazards (rv:27.0 / rv:24.3)
  • MFSA 2014-02/CVE-2014-1479 (bmo#911864) Clone protected
    content with XBL scopes
  • MFSA 2014-03/CVE-2014-1480 (bmo#916726) UI selection
    timeout missing on download prompts
  • MFSA 2014-04/CVE-2014-1482 (bmo#943803) Incorrect use
    of discarded images by RasterImage
  • MFSA 2014-05/CVE-2014-1483 (bmo#950427) Information
    disclosure with *FromPoint on iframes
  • MFSA 2014-06/CVE-2014-1484 (bmo#953993) Profile path
    leaks to Android system log
  • MFSA 2014-07/CVE-2014-1485 (bmo#910139) XSLT
    stylesheets treated as styles in Content Security Policy
  • MFSA 2014-08/CVE-2014-1486 (bmo#942164) Use-after-free
    with imgRequestProxy and image proccessing
  • MFSA 2014-09/CVE-2014-1487 (bmo#947592) Cross-origin
    information leak through web workers
  • MFSA 2014-10/CVE-2014-1489 (bmo#959531) Firefox default
    start page UI content invokable by script
  • MFSA 2014-11/CVE-2014-1488 (bmo#950604) Crash when
    using web workers with asm.js
  • MFSA 2014-12/CVE-2014-1490/CVE-2014-1491 (bmo#934545,
    bmo#930874, bmo#930857) NSS ticket handling issues
  • MFSA 2014-13/CVE-2014-1481(bmo#936056) Inconsistent
    JavaScript handling of access to Window objects

Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.15.4:

  • required for Firefox 27
  • regular CA root store update (1.96)
  • Reordered the cipher suites offered in SSL/TLS client
    hello messages to match modern best practices.
  • Improved SSL/TLS false start. In addition to enabling
    the SSL_ENABLE_FALSE_START option, an application must
    now register a callback using the
    SSL_SetCanFalseStartCallback function.
  • When false start is enabled, libssl will sometimes
    return unencrypted, unauthenticated data from PR_Recv
    (CVE-2013-1740, bmo#919877)
  • MFSA 2014-12/CVE-2014-1490/CVE-2014-1491 NSS ticket
    handling issues New functionality
  • Implemented OCSP querying using the HTTP GET method,
    which is the new default, and will fall back to the
    HTTP POST method.
  • Implemented OCSP server functionality for testing
    purposes (httpserv utility).
  • Support SHA-1 signatures with TLS 1.2 client
    authentication.
  • Added the --empty-password command-line option to
    certutil, to be used with -N: use an empty password
    when creating a new database.
  • Added the -w command-line option to pp: don’t wrap long
    output lines.