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openSUSE 11.3: 2011:0958-1 Important Mozilla Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 26, 2011
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Description

Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.6.20.

It fixes bugs and security issues. Following security

issues were fixed:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2011-30/ Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-30 (MFSA

2011-30)

* Miscellaneous memory safety hazards

Mozilla developers and community members identified and

fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used

in Firefox 3.6 and other Mozilla-based products. Some of

these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under

certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough

effort at least some of these could be exploited to run

arbitrary code.

Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, Nils and Bob Clary reported

memory safety issues which affected Firefox 3.6.

(CVE-2011-2982)

* Crash in SVGTextElement.getCharNumAtPosition()

Security researcher regenrecht reported via

TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that a SVG text

manipulation routine contained a...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 11.3:

zypper in -t patch MozillaFirefox-5013

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.20 and 3.6.20]:

MozillaFirefox-3.6.20-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-3.6.20-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-3.6.20-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-3.6.20-0.2.1

mozilla-js192-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-buildsymbols-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-devel-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-common-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-other-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

- openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.20]:

mozilla-js192-32bit-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-32bit-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-32bit-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-common-32bit-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-other-32bit-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0084.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2378.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2980.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2981.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2982.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2983.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2984.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:0958-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 11.3 . It includes two new package versions.

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