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SUSE: 2013:1382-1 Important: Mozilla Firefox Security Issues Addressed

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2013
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The latest release of Mozilla Firefox addresses 12 vulnerabilities, bolstering security measures and improving overall stability with version 18.1.1esr deployed.
An update that fixes 10 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

Update to Firefox 17.0.8esr (bnc#833389) to address: * MFSA 2013-63/CVE-2013-1701/CVE-2013-1702 (bmo#855331, bmo#844088, bmo#858060, bmo#870200, bmo#874974, bmo#861530, bmo#854157, bmo#893684, bmo#878703, bmo#862185, bmo#879139, bmo#888107, bmo#880734) Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:23.0 / rv:17.0.8) * MFSA 2013-66/CVE-2013-1706/CVE-2013-1707 (bmo#888314, bmo#888361) Buffer overflow in Mozilla Maintenance Service and Mozilla Updater * MFSA 2013-68/CVE-2013-1709 (bmo#848253) Document URI misrepresentation and masquerading * MFSA 2013-69/CVE-2013-1710 (bmo#871368) CRMF requests allow for code execution and XSS attacks * MFSA 2013-71/CVE-2013-1712 (bmo#859072) Further Privilege escalation through Mozilla Updater * MFSA 2013-72/CVE-2013-1713 (bmo#887098) Wrong

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Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow important SUSE memory safety Mozilla Firefox

References

#833389

Cross- CVE-2013-1701 CVE-2013-1702 CVE-2013-1706

CVE-2013-1707 CVE-2013-1709 CVE-2013-1710

CVE-2013-1712 CVE-2013-1713 CVE-2013-1714

CVE-2013-1717

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1701.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1702.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1706.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1707.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1709.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1710.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1712.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1713.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1714.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:1382-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow important SUSE memory safety Mozilla Firefox

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