SUSE-SU-2016:0777-1

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    SUSE-SU-2016:0777-1

    Published: 15 Mar 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss

    Details: 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)

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20160777-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/969894, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1950, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1952, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1953, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1954, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1957, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1958, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1960, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1961, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1962, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1964, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1965, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1966, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1974, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1977, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1978, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1979, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2790, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2791, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2792, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2793, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2794, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2795, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2796, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2797, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2798, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2799, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2800, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2801, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2802

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: MozillaFirefox

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -38.7.0esr-37.3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High