[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0425-1: critical: Security update for Mozilla Firefox

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for Mozilla Firefox

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0425-1

Rating: critical

References: #752168

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4

SLE SDK 10 SP4

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An update that contains security fixes can now be

installed. It includes four new package versions.

 

Description:

 

 

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 3.6.28 to fix various bugs

and security issues.

 

The following security issues have been fixed:

 

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MFSA 2012-19: 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

 

Bob Clary reported two bugs that causes crashes that

affected Firefox 3.6, Firefox ESR, and Firefox 10.

CVE-2012-0461

 

Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Nils, Michael

Bebenita, Dindog, and David Anderson reported memory safety

problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR and Firefox

10. CVE-2012-0462

 

Jeff Walden reported a memory safety problem in the

array.join function. This bug was independently reported by

Vincenzo Iozzo via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative

Pwn2Own contest. CVE-2012-0464

 

Masayuki Nakano reported a memory safety problem that

affected Mobile Firefox 10. CVE-2012-0463

 

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MFSA 2012-16 / CVE-2012-0458: Security researcher

Mariusz Mlynski reported that an attacker able to convince

a potential victim to set a new home page by dragging a

link to the "home" button can set that user's home page to

a javascript: URL. Once this is done the attacker's page

can cause repeated crashes of the browser, eventually

getting the script URL loaded in the privileged

about:sessionrestore context.

 

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MFSA 2012-14 / CVE-2012-0457 / CVE-2012-0456:

Security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG found two

issues with Firefox's handling of SVG using the Address

Sanitizer tool. The first issue, critically rated, is a

use-after-free in SVG animation that could potentially lead

to arbitrary code execution. The second issue is rated

moderate and is an out of bounds read in SVG Filters. This

could potentially incorporate data from the user's memory,

making it accessible to the page content.

 

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MFSA 2012-13 / CVE-2012-0455: Firefox prevents the

dropping of javascript: links onto a frame to prevent

malicious sites from tricking users into performing a

cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on themselves. Security

researcher Soroush Dalili reported a way to bypass this

protection.

 

The full overview can be found on Mozillas security page

at: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/

 

 

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.28,3.13.3 and 4.9.0]:

 

mozilla-nspr-4.9.0-0.6.1

mozilla-nspr-devel-4.9.0-0.6.1

mozilla-nss-3.13.3-0.5.1

mozilla-nss-devel-3.13.3-0.5.1

mozilla-nss-tools-3.13.3-0.5.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x) [New Version: 3.6.28]:

 

MozillaFirefox-3.6.28-0.5.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-3.6.28-0.5.2

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (s390x x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.28,3.13.3 and 4.9.0]:

 

mozilla-nspr-32bit-4.9.0-0.6.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-3.13.3-0.5.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-32bit-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-32bit-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-32bit-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (ia64) [New Version: 3.13.3 and 4.9.0]:

 

mozilla-nspr-x86-4.9.0-0.6.1

mozilla-nss-x86-3.13.3-0.5.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (ppc) [New Version: 3.13.3 and 4.9.0]:

 

mozilla-nspr-64bit-4.9.0-0.6.1

mozilla-nss-64bit-3.13.3-0.5.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.28,3.13.3 and 4.9.0]:

 

mozilla-nspr-4.9.0-0.6.1

mozilla-nspr-devel-4.9.0-0.6.1

mozilla-nss-3.13.3-0.5.1

mozilla-nss-devel-3.13.3-0.5.1

mozilla-nss-tools-3.13.3-0.5.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.28,3.13.3 and 4.9.0]:

 

mozilla-nspr-32bit-4.9.0-0.6.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-3.13.3-0.5.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-32bit-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-32bit-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-32bit-1.9.2.28-0.7.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586) [New Version: 3.6.28]:

 

MozillaFirefox-3.6.28-0.5.2

MozillaFirefox-translations-3.6.28-0.5.2

 

- SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.13.3]:

 

mozilla-nss-tools-3.13.3-0.5.1

 

- SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x):

 

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-3.6.28-0.5.2

 

 

References:

 

https://bugzilla.novell.com/752168

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=3cbbf6dfa64d498549bb143a54005d87

 

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