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HistoryMar 15, 2016 - 7:12 p.m.

Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss (important)

2016-03-1519:12:14
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0.963 High

EPSS

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99.4%

This update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss fixes the
following issues:

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 38.7.0 ESR (bsc#969894)

  • MFSA 2016-16/CVE-2016-1952/CVE-2016-1953 Miscellaneous memory safety
    hazards (rv:45.0 / rv:38.7)
  • MFSA 2016-17/CVE-2016-1954 Local file overwriting and potential
    privilege escalation through CSP reports
  • MFSA 2016-20/CVE-2016-1957 A memory leak in libstagefright when deleting
    an array during MP4 processing was fixed.
  • MFSA 2016-21/CVE-2016-1958 The displayed page address can be overridden
  • MFSA 2016-23/CVE-2016-1960 A use-after-free in HTML5 string parser was
    fixed.
  • MFSA 2016-24/CVE-2016-1961 A use-after-free in SetBody was fixed.
  • MFSA 2016-25/CVE-2016-1962 A use-after-free when using multiple WebRTC
    data channels was fixed.
  • MFSA 2016-27/CVE-2016-1964 A use-after-free during XML transformations
    was fixed.
  • MFSA 2016-28/CVE-2016-1965 Addressbar spoofing though history navigation
    and Location protocol property was fixed.
  • MFSA 2016-31/CVE-2016-1966 Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI plugin
    was fixed.
  • MFSA 2016-34/CVE-2016-1974 A out-of-bounds read in the HTML parser
    following a failed allocation was fixed.
  • MFSA 2016-35/CVE-2016-1950 A buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in
    NSS was fixed.
  • MFSA 2016-37/CVE-2016-1977/CVE-2016-2790/CVE-2016-2791/
    CVE-2016-2792/CVE-2016-2793/CVE-2016-2794/CVE-2016-2795/
    CVE-2016-2796/CVE-2016-2797/CVE-2016-2798/CVE-2016-2799/
    CVE-2016-2800/CVE-2016-2801/CVE-2016-2802 Various font vulnerabilities
    were fixed in the embedded Graphite 2 library

Mozilla NSS was updated to fix:

  • MFSA 2016-15/CVE-2016-1978 Use-after-free in NSS during SSL connections
    in low memory
  • MFSA 2016-35/CVE-2016-1950 Buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS
  • MFSA 2016-36/CVE-2016-1979 Use-after-free during processing of DER
    encoded keys in NSS

Mozilla NSPR was updated to version 4.12 (bsc#969894)

  • added a PR_GetEnvSecure function, which attempts to detect if the
    program is being executed with elevated privileges, and returns NULL if
    detected. It is recommended to use this function in general purpose
    library code.
  • fixed a memory allocation bug related to the PR_*printf functions
  • exported API PR_DuplicateEnvironment, which had already been added in
    NSPR 4.10.9
  • added support for FreeBSD aarch64
  • several minor correctness and compatibility fixes
  • Enable atomic instructions on mips (bmo#1129878)
  • Fix mips assertion failure when creating thread with custom stack size
    (bmo#1129968)