openSUSE: 2012:0039-2 Critical: Mozilla Firefox Memory Issues
opensuse
February 9, 2012
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available
Description
Mozilla Firefox Version 9 fixes several security issues:
* MFSA 2011-53/CVE-2011-3660: Miscellaneous memory safety
hazards
* MFSA 2011-54/CVE-2011-3661: Potentially exploitable crash
in the YARR regular expression library
* MFSA 2011-55/CVE-2011-3658: nsSVGValue out-of-bounds
access
* MFSA 2011-56/CVE-2011-3663: Key detection without
JavaScript via SVG animation
* MFSA 2011-58/CVE-2011-3665: Crash scaling
extreme sizes
Special Instructions and Notes:
Please reboot the system after installing this update.
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 11.4:
zypper in -t patch MozillaFirefox-5577
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List
- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.25 and 9.0]:
MozillaFirefox-9.0-0.2.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-9.0-0.2.1
MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-9.0-0.2.1
MozillaFirefox-devel-9.0-0.2.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common-9.0-0.2.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other-9.0-0.2.1
mozilla-js192-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
mozilla-xulrunner192-buildsymbols-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
mozilla-xulrunner192-devel-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-common-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-other-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
- openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.25]:
mozilla-js192-32bit-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
mozilla-xulrunner192-32bit-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-32bit-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-common-32bit-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-other-32bit-1.9.2.25-0.2.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3658.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3660.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3661.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3663.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3665.html
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0039-2
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE 11.4
. It
includes two new package versions.
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