openSUSE Security Update: MozillaFirefox to 10.0.1
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2012:0258-1
Rating:             critical
References:         #746616 
Cross-References:   CVE-2012-0452
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE 11.4
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   An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. It
   includes two new package versions.

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 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
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/746616