SUSE: 2013:0850-1 Critical: Mozilla Firefox Memory Safety Exploits
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May 31, 2013
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Summary
Mozilla Firefox has been updated to the17.0.6ESR security version upgrade as a LTSS roll up 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
References
#819204
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:0850-1
Rating: important
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