Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:17:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r458155 - head/security/vuxml Message-ID: <201801051717.w05HH9rT088019@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: jbeich Date: Fri Jan 5 17:17:09 2018 New Revision: 458155 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/458155 Log: security/vuxml: mark firefox < 57.0.4 as vulnerable Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml ============================================================================== --- head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Fri Jan 5 17:03:16 2018 (r458154) +++ head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Fri Jan 5 17:17:09 2018 (r458155) @@ -58,6 +58,51 @@ Notes: * Do not forget port variants (linux-f10-libxml2, libxml2, etc.) --> <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1">; + <vuln vid="8429711b-76ca-474e-94a0-6b980f1e2d47"> + <topic>mozilla -- Speculative execution side-channel attack</topic> + <affects> + <package> + <name>firefox</name> + <range><lt>57.0.4,1</lt></range> + </package> + <package> + <name>waterfox</name> + <range><lt>56.0.2</lt></range> + </package> + </affects> + <description> + <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">; + <p>Mozilla Foundation reports:</p> + <blockquote cite="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-01/">; + <p><strong>Jann Horn</strong> of Google Project Zero + Security reported that speculative execution performed + by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing + side-channel attack. Microsoft Vulnerability Research + extended this attack to browser JavaScript engines and + demonstrated that code on a malicious web page could + read data from other web sites (violating the + same-origin policy) or private data from the browser + itself.</p> + <p>Since this new class of attacks involves measuring + precise time intervals, as a parti al, short-term, + mitigation we are disabling or reducing the precision of + several time sources in Firefox. The precision of + <code>performance.now()</code> has been reduced from 5μs + to 20μs, and the <code>SharedArrayBuffer</code> feature + has been disabled because it can be used to construct a + high-resolution timer.</p> + </blockquote> + </body> + </description> + <references> + <url>https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-01/</url>; + </references> + <dates> + <discovery>2018-01-04</discovery> + <entry>2018-01-05</entry> + </dates> + </vuln> + <vuln vid="cebd05d6-ed7b-11e7-95f2-005056925db4"> <topic>OTRS -- Multiple vulnerabilities</topic> <affects>
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