SUSE: 2012:0221-1 Important: Mozilla Firefox Memory Safety Problems
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February 9, 2012
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Summary
Mozilla Firefox was updated to 3.6.26 fixing bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed by this update: * 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
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References
#744275
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4
SLE SDK 10 SP4
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0221-1
Rating: important
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