A MozillaFirefox security update has been released for openSUSE Leap 15.2.

openSUSE-SU-2021:0487-1: important: Security update for MozillaFirefox

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for MozillaFirefox
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0487-1
Rating: important
References: #1183942
Cross-References: CVE-2021-23981 CVE-2021-23982 CVE-2021-23984
CVE-2021-23987
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.2
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An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues:

- Firefox was updated to 78.9.0 ESR (MFSA 2021-11, bsc#1183942)
* CVE-2021-23981: Texture upload into an unbound backing buffer resulted
in an out-of-bound read
* CVE-2021-23982: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a
malicious webpage
* CVE-2021-23984: Malicious extensions could have spoofed popup
information
* CVE-2021-23987: Memory safety bugs

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-487=1


Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1
MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1
MozillaFirefox-devel-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other-78.9.0-lp152.2.52.1

References:

  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23981.html
  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23982.html
  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23984.html
  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23987.html
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183942