[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0198-1: important: Security update for Mozilla XULrunner

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for Mozilla XULrunner

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0198-1

Rating: important

References: #737533 #744275

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1

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An update that contains security fixes can now be

installed. It includes one version update.

 

Description:

 

 

Mozilla XULrunner was updated to 1.9.2.26 security update,

fixing security issues and bugs. The following security

bugs have been fixed:

 

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MFSA 2012-01: 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.

 

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through

email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because

scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in

browser or browser-like contexts in those products.

References

 

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CVE-2012-0442: Jesse Ruderman and Bob Clary reported

memory safety problems that were fixed in both Firefox 10

and Firefox 3.6.26.

 

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MFSA 2012-02/CVE-2011-3670: For historical reasons

Firefox has been generous in its interpretation of web

addresses containing square brackets around the host. If

this host was not a valid IPv6 literal address, Firefox

attempted to interpret the host as a regular domain name.

Gregory Fleischer reported that requests made using IPv6

syntax using XMLHttpRequest objects through a proxy may

generate errors depending on proxy configuration for IPv6.

The resulting error messages from the proxy may disclose

sensitive data because Same-Origin Policy (SOP) will allow

the XMLHttpRequest object to read these error messages,

allowing user privacy to be eroded. Firefox now enforces

RFC 3986 IPv6 literal syntax and that may break links

written using the non-standard Firefox-only forms that were

previously accepted.

 

This was fixed previously for Firefox 7.0,

Thunderbird 7.0, and SeaMonkey 2.4 but only fixed in

Firefox 3.6.26 and Thunderbird 3.1.18 during 2012.

 

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MFSA 2012-04/CVE-2011-3659: Security researcher

regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative

that removed child nodes of nsDOMAttribute can be accessed

under certain circumstances because of a premature

notification of AttributeChildRemoved. This use-after-free

of the child nodes could possibly allow for for remote code

execution.

 

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MFSA 2012-07/CVE-2012-0444: Security researcher

regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative

the possibility of memory corruption during the decoding of

Ogg Vorbis files. This can cause a crash during decoding

and has the potential for remote code execution.

 

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MFSA 2012-08/CVE-2012-0449: Security researchers

Nicolas Gregoire and Aki Helin independently reported that

when processing a malformed embedded XSLT stylesheet,

Firefox can crash due to a memory corruption. While there

is no evidence that this is directly exploitable, there is

a possibility of remote code execution.

 

Indications:

 

Please install this update.

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch sdksp1-mozilla-xulrunner192-5764

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp1-mozilla-xulrunner192-5764

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp1-mozilla-xulrunner192-5764

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch sledsp1-mozilla-xulrunner192-5764

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

 

mozilla-xulrunner192-devel-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 (ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

 

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 (ia64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

 

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-x86-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-x86-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware (i586 x86_64):

 

mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware (x86_64):

 

mozilla-xulrunner192-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

 

mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

 

mozilla-xulrunner192-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (ia64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

 

mozilla-xulrunner192-x86-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

 

mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 (x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

 

mozilla-xulrunner192-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.3.1

 

 

References:

 

https://bugzilla.novell.com/737533

https://bugzilla.novell.com/744275

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=f3ea71cad4a071175c00255553cb3aa9

 

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