This MozillaFirefox and mozilla-nss update fixes several security and
non-security issues.
MozillaFirefox has been updated to version 24.5.0esr which fixes the
following issues:
- MFSA 2014-34/CVE-2014-1518 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards
- MFSA 2014-37/CVE-2014-1523 Out of bounds read while decoding JPG
images
- MFSA 2014-38/CVE-2014-1524 Buffer overflow when using non-XBL object
as XBL
- MFSA 2014-42/CVE-2014-1529 Privilege escalation through Web
Notification API
- MFSA 2014-43/CVE-2014-1530 Cross-site scripting (XSS) using history
navigations
- MFSA 2014-44/CVE-2014-1531 Use-after-free in imgLoader while
resizing images
- MFSA 2014-46/CVE-2014-1532 Use-after-free in nsHostResolver
Mozilla NSS has been updated to version 3.16
- required for Firefox 29
- CVE-2014-1492_ In a wildcard certificate, the wildcard character
should not be embedded within the U-label of an internationalized
domain name. See the last bullet point in RFC 6125, Section 7.2.
- Update of root certificates.