openSUSE: 2012:0258-1: critical: MozillaFirefox
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. tml
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 https://bugzilla.novell.com/746616
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