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SUSE Linux 11 SP3: 2014:0638-1 Important: Mozilla Firefox Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 14, 2014
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Crucial SUSE enhancement for Mozilla Firefox resolves various vulnerabilities with detailed citations.
An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla NSS update to 24.5.0esr fixes the following several security and non-security issues: * MFSA 2014-34/CVE-2014-1518 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards * MFSA 2014-37/CVE-2014-1523 Out of bounds read while decoding JPG images * MFSA 2014-38/CVE-2014-1524 Buffer overflow when using non-XBL object as XBL * MFSA 2014-42/CVE-2014-1529 Privilege escalation through Web Notification API * MFSA 2014-43/CVE-2014-1530 Cross-site scripting (XSS) using history navigations * MFSA 2014-44/CVE-2014-1531 Use-after-free in imgLoader while resizing images * MFSA 2014-46/CVE-2014-1532 Use-after-free in nsHostResolver Mozilla NSS has been updated to 3.16: * required for Firefox 29 * CVE-2014-1492: In a wildcard certificate, the wildcard character

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow software update important Mozilla Firefox SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#865539 #869827 #875378 #875803

Cross- CVE-2014-1518 CVE-2014-1520 CVE-2014-1523

CVE-2014-1524 CVE-2014-1529 CVE-2014-1530

CVE-2014-1531 CVE-2014-1532

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://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1518.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1520.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1523.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1524.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1529.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1530.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1531.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:0638-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow software update important Mozilla Firefox SUSE Linux Enterprise

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