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SUSE: 2012:0746-1 Important: Mozilla Firefox Memory Safety Risk

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2012
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SUSE has released a security update for Mozilla Firefox, targeting several memory safety vulnerabilities and significant threats within web browsers.
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Summary

MozillaFirefox has been updated to 10.0.5ESR fixing various bugs and security issues. * MFSA 2012-34 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 Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Bill McCloskey, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, and Brian Bondy reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect

References

#765204

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4

SLE SDK 10 SP4

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0746-1
Rating: important

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