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openSUSE: 2012:1345-1 Important: MozillaFirefox Memory Safety Update

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2012
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Mozilla Firefox has been updated to resolve 25 vulnerabilities affecting openSUSE 11.4, 12.1, and 12.2, enhancing overall security.
An update that fixes 25 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

The Mozilla suite received following security updates

(bnc#783533):

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 16.0.1. Mozilla Seamonkey

was updated to 2.13.1. Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to

16.0.1. Mozilla XULRunner was updated to 16.0.1.

* MFSA 2012-88/CVE-2012-4191 (bmo#798045) Miscellaneous

memory safety hazards

* MFSA 2012-89/CVE-2012-4192/CVE-2012-4193 (bmo#799952,

bmo#720619) defaultValue security checks not applied

* MFSA 2012-74/CVE-2012-3982/CVE-2012-3983 Miscellaneous

memory safety hazards

* MFSA 2012-75/CVE-2012-3984 (bmo#575294) select element

persistance allows for attacks

* MFSA 2012-76/CVE-2012-3985 (bmo#655649) Continued

access to initial origin after setting document.domain

* MFSA 2012-77/CVE-2012-3986 (bmo#775868) Some

DOMWindowUtils methods bypass security checks

* MFSA 2012-79/CVE-2012-3988 (bmo#725770) DOS and crash

with full screen and history navigation

* MFSA 2012-80/CVE-2012-3989 (bmo#783867) Crash with

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update DoS security patch memory safety Mozilla Firefox openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 12.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-709

- openSUSE 12.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-709

- openSUSE 11.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-709

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

Package List

- openSUSE 12.2 (i586 x86_64):

MozillaFirefox-16.0.1-2.17.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-16.0.1-2.17.1

MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-16.0.1-2.17.1

MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-16.0.1-2.17.1

MozillaFirefox-debugsource-16.0.1-2.17.1

MozillaFirefox-devel-16.0.1-2.17.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-16.0.1-2.17.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-16.0.1-2.17.1

MozillaThunderbird-16.0.1-49.15.1

MozillaThunderbird-buildsymbols-16.0.1-49.15.1

MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-16.0.1-49.15.1

MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-16.0.1-49.15.1

MozillaThunderbird-devel-16.0.1-49.15.1

MozillaThunderbird-devel-debuginfo-16.0.1-49.15.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-16.0.1-49.15.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-16.0.1-49.15.1

enigmail-1.4.5.+16.0.1-49.15.1

enigmail-debuginfo-1.4.5.+16.0.1-49.15.1

mozilla-js-16.0.1-2.14.1

mozilla-js-debuginfo-16.0.1-2.14.1

mozilla-kde4-integration-0.6.4-10.4.1

mozilla-kde4-integration-debuginfo-0.6.4-10.4.1

mozilla-kde4-integration-debugsource-0.6.4-10.4.1

seamonkey-2.13.1-2.18.1

seam...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3982.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3983.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3984.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3985.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3986.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3988.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3989.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3990.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3991.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3992.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3993.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3994.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3995.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4179.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4180.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4182.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4183.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4184.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4185.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:1345-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 12.2 openSUSE 12.1 openSUSE 11.4

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update DoS security patch memory safety Mozilla Firefox openSUSE

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