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SUSE: 2012:0199-2 Critical: Mozilla XULrunner Vulnerability Patch

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2012
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SUSE Security Update: Critical Mozilla XULrunner addresses vulnerabilities related to memory safety and possible exploit risks.
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Summary

Mozilla XULrunner was updated to 1.9.2.26 security update, fixing security issues and bugs. The following security bugs have been fixed: * MFSA 2012-01: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products. References * CVE-2012-0442: Jesse Ruderman and Bob Clary reported memory safety problems that were fixed in both Firefox 10

References

#737533 #744275

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0198-1
Rating: important

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