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SUSE Security Announcement
Package: MozillaFirefox,MozillaThunderbird,seamonkey
Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2006:068
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:00:00 +0000
Affected Products: Novell Linux Desktop 9
SUSE LINUX 10.1
SUSE LINUX 10.0
SUSE LINUX 9.3
SUSE SLED 10
SUSE SLES 10
Vulnerability Type: remote denial of service
Severity (1-10): 6
SUSE Default Package: yes
Cross-References: CVE-2006-5464 CVE-2006-5747 CVE-2006-5748
CVE-2006-5462 CVE-2006-5463
MFSA2006-65 MFSA2006-66 MFSA2006-67
Content of This Advisory:
1) Security Vulnerability Resolved:
Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 update
Problem Description
2) Solution or Work-Around
3) Special Instructions and Notes
4) Package Location and Checksums
5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds:
See SUSE Security Summary Report.
6) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information
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1) Problem Description and Brief Discussion
MozillaFirefox has been updated to the security update release
1.5.0.8, MozillaThunderbird has been updated to 1.5.0.8, and the
Mozilla Seamonkey suite has been updated to 1.0.6 to fix the following
security issues.
Full details of the security problems can be found on:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/
MFSA2006-65: This issue is split into 3 sub-entries, for ongoing
stability improvements in the Mozilla browsers:
CVE-2006-5464: Layout engine flaws were fixed.
CVE-2006-5747: A xml.prototype.hasOwnProperty flaw was fixed.
CVE-2006-5748: Fixes were applied to the Javascript engine.
MFSA2006-66/CVE-2006-5462: MFSA 2006-60 reported that RSA digital
signatures with a low exponent (typically 3) could be forged. Firefox
and Thunderbird 1.5.0.7, which incorporated NSS version 3.10.2,
were incompletely patched and remained vulnerable to a variant of
this attack.
MFSA2006-67/CVE-2006-5463: shutdown demonstrated that it was possible
to modify a Script object while it was executing, potentially leading
to the execution of arbitrary JavaScript bytecode.
Note that Mozilla Suite updates for products before SUSE Linux 10.1 / SLES 10
are not available yet due to backporting problems.
2) Solution or Work-Around
Please install the update packages.
3) Special Instructions and Notes
Please restart running Firefox browsers and Thunderbird Mailprograms
after the update.
4) Package Location and Checksums
The preferred method for installing security updates is to use the YaST
Online Update (YOU) tool. YOU detects which updates are required and
automatically performs the necessary steps to verify and install them.
Alternatively, download the update packages for your distribution manually
and verify their integrity by the methods listed in Section 6 of this
announcement. Then install the packages using the command
rpm -Fhv
to apply the update, replacing with the filename of the
downloaded RPM package.
x86 Platform:
SUSE LINUX 10.1:
a71ff28968946b9f5f418850fd89f040
0670be80cb53f1812c1ec2111dc3d319
582ee8d62a2265f419f3c935fd28e140
3a697615a0d1d91bbad17744c10d5642
038fa9aa0cc125ebcabd5056ae053e3c
39fb09fd03477ae0b21a9465a367743e
6e3c9353d48a8aabd5adb17abc8b8a10
f6899d09d3d1d3e03e615a35fb33d693
c64abb5300c18531d13095ac60197117
6af660eae2ea7212846321fdeabc0a6c
1a426dc987e6d1b1cc43362d5bf49c3e
SUSE LINUX 10.0:
e33a435adb724a5a67e3f1a6b3170079
aba89e486b5fd093403070dad154382a
a2781cd3c5a5afdffc786fbab2520bba
SUSE LINUX 9.3:
f1e93cd6d77c99c1b8085955169e4f23
239863d6c69b11262007a86c5d5596c3
44b9e963442b7312dc26f11795022627
Power PC Platform:
SUSE LINUX 10.1:
e909d7df1cb3e4540ca0302508852874
af32635994a6bb074f6d5e5b885ee1c6
bf17da86409001df349ae4fbac4b668b
f44b2d371ad12a48a989b96ed4023167
8f5947f98696c98356313ca55ac490e8
752591a3c37606ae0cd0bf45a615dc79
2e819c9757969f9599a5c164c3a6580b
4291c715903383ccc9a171e2e49ebfab
a19f68a00db97ae677958661c9894f8d
31be91c974e4ba3c01439180d480d274
f2d1a5caa889b38e90364a6a4a12a980
SUSE LINUX 10.0:
69f4d936a8d8f11ea0dce189ed4f7f01
a7a3bd6f9f3b4147acaf414437fcabe2
e6ca4b911052054a45371f41abc77a70
x86-64 Platform:
SUSE LINUX 10.1:
f232cb857a035182ed2d521bfd55f874
cdb73b01ecd43204b5790ee3bf253de0
7382f2acbf3bd3fc3aed35ca71b0d65e
17e317ec80fa07a95fdc1f113c7417df
525b092e5cc19e58e80d2f7e520cb554
7ef37cf7fd80a2b40af3bb2f7ff7c665
1705c736eeddaa6d6e4add05e727ef39
0756bad0119aa9f282a70f71a4759a86
b85bfb834272d99c6050bb268c4a3149
SUSE LINUX 10.0:
96513992769ceb5e0d4b90a9c2fda4de
SUSE LINUX 9.3:
7cbbc19627f55155e9f7b436b4a33527
Sources:
SUSE LINUX 10.1:
e911273b221cb088d07f0413f0e22907
5bf89c4adbb54a5e86fa03b3d6b4fde0
a2d387652f944c0cb106310ad3502b87
SUSE LINUX 10.0:
ccdd21afb275385efd1fa5bee9ce2101
8216c602629777a602bd88b7aa73c5ed
SUSE LINUX 9.3:
bbc1be52a5618a586e50e8cd1d1d420b
e766484c7d8fb446bd53a20edbc1f0cc
Our maintenance customers are notified individually. The packages are
offered for installation from the maintenance web:
Novell Linux Desktop 9
SUSE SLES 10
SUSE SLED 10
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/eb29e246d47ad02c74de06d48db89df2.html
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5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds:
See SUSE Security Summary Report.
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6) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information
- Announcement authenticity verification:
SUSE security announcements are published via mailing lists and on Web
sites. The authenticity and integrity of a SUSE security announcement is
guaranteed by a cryptographic signature in each announcement. All SUSE
security announcements are published with a valid signature.
To verify the signature of the announcement, save it as text into a file
and run the command
gpg --verify
replacing with the name of the file where you saved the
announcement. The output for a valid signature looks like:
gpg: Signature made using RSA key ID 3D25D3D9
gpg: Good signature from "SuSE Security Team "
where is replaced by the date the document was signed.
If the security team's key is not contained in your key ring, you can
import it from the first installation CD. To import the key, use the
command
gpg --import gpg-pubkey-3d25d3d9-36e12d04.asc
- Package authenticity verification:
SUSE update packages are available on many mirror FTP servers all over the
world. While this service is considered valuable and important to the free
and open source software community, the authenticity and the integrity of
a package needs to be verified to ensure that it has not been tampered
with.
There are two verification methods that can be used independently from
each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded file or RPM package:
1) Using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package
2) MD5 checksums as provided in this announcement
1) The internal rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the
authenticity of an RPM package. Use the command
rpm -v --checksig
to verify the signature of the package, replacing with the
filename of the RPM package downloaded. The package is unmodified if it
contains a valid signature from build@suse.de with the key ID 9C800ACA.
This key is automatically imported into the RPM database (on
RPMv4-based distributions) and the gpg key ring of 'root' during
installation. You can also find it on the first installation CD and at
the end of this announcement.
2) If you need an alternative means of verification, use the md5sum
command to verify the authenticity of the packages. Execute the command
md5sum
after you downloaded the file from a SUSE FTP server or its mirrors.
Then compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the
SUSE security announcement. Because the announcement containing the
checksums is cryptographically signed (by security@suse.de), the
checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package if the
signature of the announcement is valid. Note that the md5 sums
published in the SUSE Security Announcements are valid for the
respective packages only. Newer versions of these packages cannot be
verified.
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