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SUSE: 2012:1592-1 critical: Mozilla Firefox remote execution

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Calendar Grey November 29, 2012
Dist Suse Esm H88
Latest release for Mozilla Firefox addresses severe security vulnerabilities with high significance for SUSE users. Review the specifics.
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Summary

Mozilla Firefox has been updated to the 10.0.11 ESR security release, which fixes various bugs and security issues. * MFSA 2012-106: Security researcher miaubiz used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a series critically rated of use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues in shipped software. These issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution. We would also like to thank miaubiz for reporting two additional use-after-free and memory corruption issues introduced during Firefox development that have been fixed before general release. 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

References

#790140

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
important
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:1592-1
Rating: important

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