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SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4: SUSE-SU-2013:0843-1 Important: Firefox Update

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2013
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch fixes various flaws in Mozilla Firefox, boosting defenses against significant threats.
An update that fixes 10 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

Mozilla Firefox has been updated to the 17.0.6ESR security release. * MFSA 2013-30: 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. Olli Pettay, Jesse Ruderman, Boris Zbarsky, Christian Holler, Milan Sreckovic, and Joe Drew reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 17, and Firefox 19. (CVE-2013-0788) * MFSA 2013-31 / CVE-2013-0800: Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an

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security advisory security update security issue memory safety Mozilla Firefox SUSE Linux Enterprise important notice

References

#755821 #792432 #819204

Cross- CVE-2013-0788 CVE-2013-0791 CVE-2013-0792

CVE-2013-0793 CVE-2013-0794 CVE-2013-0795

CVE-2013-0796 CVE-2013-0797 CVE-2013-0799

CVE-2013-0800

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-2013-0788.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0791.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0792.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0793.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0794.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0795.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0796.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0797.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:0843-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update security issue memory safety Mozilla Firefox SUSE Linux Enterprise important notice

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