SUSE Linux 10 SP3: 2013:0306-1 Important: Mozilla Firefox Security Fixes
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February 18, 2013
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Summary
Mozilla Firefox is updated to the 10.0.12ESR version. This is a roll-up update for LTSS. It fixes a lot of security issues and bugs. 10.0.12ESR fixes specifically: * MFSA 2013-01: 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. Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Mats Palmgren, and Chiaki Ishikawa reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 10, Firefox ESR 17, and Firefox 17. (CVE-2013-0769) Bill Gianopoulos, Benoit Jacob, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Robert O'Callahan, and
References
#666101 #681836 #684069 #712248 #769762 #796895
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:0306-1
Rating: important
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