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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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