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SUSE 10 SP4: 2012:0895-1 Important Mozilla Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2012
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Mozilla Firefox has issued a crucial security update for SUSE users, addressing vulnerabilities that may be exploited, enhancing defenses, privacy, and performance.
An update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

MozillaFirefox have been updated to the 10.0.6ESR security release fixing various bugs and several security issues, some critical. The ollowing security issues have been fixed: * MFSA 2012-42: 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. * CVE-2012-1948: Benoit Jacob, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, and Bill McCloskey reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 10 and Firefox 13. * MFSA 2012-43 / CVE-2012-1950: Security researcher Mario Gomes andresearch firm Code Audit Labs reported a

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical important SUSE memory safety Mozilla Firefox

References

#712248 #771583

Cross- CVE-2012-1948 CVE-2012-1949 CVE-2012-1950

CVE-2012-1951 CVE-2012-1952 CVE-2012-1953

CVE-2012-1954 CVE-2012-1955 CVE-2012-1957

CVE-2012-1958 CVE-2012-1959 CVE-2012-1961

CVE-2012-1962 CVE-2012-1963 CVE-2012-1964

CVE-2012-1965 CVE-2012-1966 CVE-2012-1967

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4

SLE SDK 10 SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1948.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1949.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1950.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1951.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1952.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1953.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0895-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical important SUSE memory safety Mozilla Firefox

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