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SUSE: 2012:1157-1 Important: Mozilla Firefox Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2012
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Crucial security patches for Mozilla Firefox on SUSE are now available. Ensure you update promptly to reduce exposure to potential flaws and issues.
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Summary

MozillaFirefox was updated to 10.0.7ESR release, fixing a lot of bugs and security problems. The following security issues have been addressed: * MFSA 2012-57: 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. * CVE-2012-1971: Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Steve Fink, Bob Clary, Andrew Sutherland, and

References

#777588

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:1157-1
Rating: important

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