Mozilla Firefox 28.0 Released with Critical Updates ~ Security Garden

Mozilla sent Firefox Version 28.0 to the release channel. The update includes five (5) Critical, three (3) High, seven (7) Moderate and two (2) Low security updates.

Edit Note: These updates address the four holes in the PWN2OWN Competition.

Fixed in Firefox 28

MFSA 2014-32 Out-of-bounds write through TypedArrayObject after neutering
MFSA 2014-31 Out-of-bounds read/write through neutering ArrayBuffer objects
MFSA 2014-30 Use-after-free in TypeObject
MFSA 2014-29 Privilege escalation using WebIDL-implemented APIs
MFSA 2014-28 SVG filters information disclosure through feDisplacementMap
MFSA 2014-27 Memory corruption in Cairo during PDF font rendering
MFSA 2014-26 Information disclosure through polygon rendering in MathML
MFSA 2014-25 Firefox OS DeviceStorageFile object vulnerable to relative path escape
MFSA 2014-24 Android Crash Reporter open to manipulation
MFSA 2014-23 Content Security Policy for data: documents not preserved by session restore
MFSA 2014-22 WebGL content injection from one domain to rendering in another
MFSA 2014-21 Local file access via Open Link in new tab
MFSA 2014-20 onbeforeunload and Javascript navigation DOS
MFSA 2014-19 Spoofing attack on WebRTC permission prompt
MFSA 2014-18 crypto.generateCRMFRequest does not validate type of key
MFSA 2014-17 Out of bounds read during WAV file decoding
MFSA 2014-16 Files extracted during updates are not always read only
MFSA 2014-15 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:28.0 / rv:24.4)

What’s New

NEW -- VP9 video decoding implemented
NEW -- Mac OS X: Notification Center support for web notifications
NEW -- Volume control for HTML5 audio/video
NEW -- Support for Opus in WebM
CHANGED -- Now that spdy/3 is implemented support for spdy/2 has been removed and servers without spdy/3 will negotiate to http/1 without any penalty
DEVELOPER -- Support for MathML 2.0 'mathvariant' attribute
DEVELOPER -- Background thread hang reporting
DEVELOPER -- Support for multi-line flexbox in layout
FIXED -- Various security fixes

Known Issues

Unresolved -- Echo cancellation on apprtc.appspot.com fails (see 974537), Unresolved on v28 Resolved in v29
Unresolved -- Text Rendering Issues on Windows 7 with Platform Update KB2670838 (MSIE 10 Prerequisite) or on Windows 8.1 has a workaround (see 812695)

Update

To get the update now, select "Help" from the Firefox menu at the upper left of the browser window, then pick "About Firefox." Mac users need to select "About Firefox" from the Firefox menu.

If you do not use the English language version, Fully Localized Versions are available for download.

References

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014