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HistoryJul 13, 2015 - 11:07 a.m.

Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss (important)

2015-07-1311:07:56
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MozillaFirefox was updated to version 39.0 to fix 21 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2015-2724/CVE-2015-2725/CVE-2015-2726: Miscellaneous memory safety
    hazards (bsc#935979).
  • CVE-2015-2727: Local files or privileged URLs in pages can be opened
    into new tabs (bsc#935979).
  • CVE-2015-2728: Type confusion in Indexed Database Manager (bsc#935979).
  • CVE-2015-2729: Out-of-bound read while computing an oscillator rendering
    range in Web Audio (bsc#935979).
  • CVE-2015-2731: Use-after-free in Content Policy due to microtask
    execution error (bsc#935979).
  • CVE-2015-2730: ECDSA signature validation fails to handle some
    signatures correctly (bsc#935979).
  • CVE-2015-2722/CVE-2015-2733: Use-after-free in workers while using
    XMLHttpRequest (bsc#935979).

CVE-2015-2734/CVE-2015-2735/CVE-2015-2736/CVE-2015-2737/CVE-2015-2738/CVE-2
015-2739/CVE-2015-2740: Vulnerabilities found through code inspection
(bsc#935979).

  • CVE-2015-2741: Key pinning is ignored when overridable errors are
    encountered (bsc#935979).
  • CVE-2015-2743: Privilege escalation in PDF.js (bsc#935979).
  • CVE-2015-4000: NSS accepts export-length DHE keys with regular DHE
    cipher suites (bsc#935979).
  • CVE-2015-2721: NSS incorrectly permits skipping of ServerKeyExchange
    (bsc#935979).

New features:

  • Share Hello URLs with social networks
  • Support for ‘switch’ role in ARIA 1.1 (web accessibility)
  • SafeBrowsing malware detection lookups enabled for downloads (Mac OS X
    and Linux)
  • Support for new Unicode 8.0 skin tone emoji
  • Removed support for insecure SSLv3 for network communications
  • Disable use of RC4 except for temporarily whitelisted hosts
  • NPAPI Plug-in performance improved via asynchronous initialization

mozilla-nss was updated to version 3.19.2 to fix some of the security
issues listed above.