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SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Security Update: Key Mozilla-NSPR and NSS Patches

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Calendar Grey December 2, 2013
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SUSE reveals a crucial patch addressing vulnerabilities in mozilla-nspr and mozilla-nss, aiming to thwart possible security threats.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

Mozilla NSPR and NSS were updated to fix various security bugs that could be used to crash the browser or potentially execute code. Mozilla NSPR 4.10.2 has the following bug fixes: * Bug 770534: Possible pointer overflow in PL_ArenaAllocate(). Fixed by Pascal Cuoq and Kamil Dudka. * Bug 888546: ptio.c:PR_ImportUDPSocket doesn't work. Fixed by Miloslav Trmac. * Bug 915522: VS2013 support for NSPR. Fixed by Makoto Kato. * Bug 927687: Avoid unsigned integer wrapping in PL_ArenaAllocate. (CVE-2013-5607) Mozilla NSS 3.15.3 is a patch release for NSS 3.15 and includes the following bug fixes: * Bug 925100: Ensure a size is <= half of the maximum PRUint32 value. (CVE-2013-1741) * Bug 934016: Handle invalid handshake packets. (CVE-2013-5605) * Bug 910438: Return the correct result in

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security advisory security issue software update important fix SUSE Linux Enterprise mozilla-nss mozilla-nspr

References

#850148

Cross- CVE-2013-1741 CVE-2013-5605 CVE-2013-5606

CVE-2013-5607

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1741.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5605.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5606.html

https://www.suse.com/security/c...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:1807-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update important fix SUSE Linux Enterprise mozilla-nss mozilla-nspr

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