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SUSE: 2012:1426-1 Critical: Mozilla Firefox XSS Attacks

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2012
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An essential security patch from SUSE for Mozilla Firefox resolves several XSS vulnerabilities. Keep your system current for enhanced protection.
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Summary

MozillaFirefox was updated to the 10.0.10ESR security release. The following issues have been fixed: * MFSA 2012-90: Mozilla has fixed a number of issues related to the Location object in order to enhance overall security. Details for each of the current fixed issues are below. Thunderbird is only affected by window.location issues through RSS feeds and extensions that load web content. * CVE-2012-4194: Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that the true value of window.location could be shadowed by user content through the use of the valueOf method, which can be combined with some plugins to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on users. * CVE-2012-4195: Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that the CheckURL function in window.location can be forced to return the wrong calling

References

#786522

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 Server 10 SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4

SLE SDK 10 SP4

Severity
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:1426-1
Rating: important

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