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SUSE: 2014:0418-1 Important: MozillaFirefox DoS Security Updates

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2014
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Crucial enhancement released for MozillaFirefox, featuring multiple security patches aimed at improving safety and reliability within SUSE systems.
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Summary

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 24.4.0ESR release, fixing various security issues and bugs: * MFSA 2014-15: Mozilla developers and community identified 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. * Benoit Jacob, Olli Pettay, Jan Varga, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Dan Gohman, and Christoph Diehl reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 24.3 and Firefox 27. (CVE-2014-1493) * Gregor Wagner, Olli Pettay, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Luke Wagner, Rob Fletcher, and Makoto Kato reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect

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security advisory SUSE Linux security fixes memory safety DoS protection Firefox update browser vulnerabilities

References

#868603

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:0418-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory SUSE Linux security fixes memory safety DoS protection Firefox update browser vulnerabilities

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