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openSUSE 11.4: 2012:0258-1 Critical: MozillaFirefox Security Issue

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2012
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A vital patch for MozillaFirefox in openSUSE targets a significant vulnerability and incorporates crucial updates for various packages.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

MozillaFirefox was updated to 10.0.1 to fix critical bugs

and security issue.

Following security issue was fixed: CVE-2012-0452: Mozilla

developers Andrew McCreight and Olli Pettay found that

ReadPrototypeBindings will leave a XBL binding in a hash

table even when the function fails. If this occurs, when

the cycle collector reads this hash table and attempts to

do a virtual method on this binding a crash will occur.

This crash may be potentially exploitable.

Firefox 9 and earlier are not affected by this

vulnerability.

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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 11.4:

zypper in -t patch MozillaFirefox-5799 seamonkey-5804

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

Package List

- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 10.0.1 and 2.7.1]:

MozillaFirefox-10.0.1-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-10.0.1-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-10.0.1-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-10.0.1-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-10.0.1-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-10.0.1-0.2.1

seamonkey-2.7.1-0.2.1

seamonkey-dom-inspector-2.7.1-0.2.1

seamonkey-irc-2.7.1-0.2.1

seamonkey-translations-common-2.7.1-0.2.1

seamonkey-translations-other-2.7.1-0.2.1

seamonkey-venkman-2.7.1-0.2.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0452.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0258-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 . It includes two new package versions.

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