SUSE 10 SP4 Important Firefox Update: 32 Fixes for Memory Issues
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September 14, 2012
An update that fixes 32 vulnerabilities is now available
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
#684069 #769762 #777588
Cross- CVE-2012-1956 CVE-2012-1970 CVE-2012-1971
CVE-2012-1972 CVE-2012-1973 CVE-2012-1974
CVE-2012-1975 CVE-2012-1976 CVE-2012-3956
CVE-2012-3957 CVE-2012-3958 CVE-2012-3959
CVE-2012-3960 CVE-2012-3961 CVE-2012-3962
CVE-2012-3963 CVE-2012-3964 CVE-2012-3965
CVE-2012-3966 CVE-2012-3967 CVE-2012-3968
CVE-2012-3969 CVE-2012-3970 CVE-2012-3971
CVE-2012-3972 CVE-2012-3973 CVE-2012-3974
CVE-2012-3975 CVE-2012-3976 CVE-2012-3978
CVE-2012-3979 CVE-2012-3980
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-2012-1956.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1970.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012...
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:1167-1
Rating: important
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