Security update for Mozilla Firefox
SUSE Security Update: Security update for Mozilla Firefox
MozillaFirefox was updated to 10.0.1 to fix critical bugs
and security issue.
The following security issue has been fixed:
CVE-2012-0452: Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight and Olli
Pettay found that ReadPrototypeBindings will leave a XBL
binding in a hash table even when the function fails. If
this occurs, when the cycle collector reads this hash
table and attempts to do a virtual method on this binding a
crash will occur. This crash may be potentially
exploitable.
Firefox 9 and earlier are not affected by this
vulnerability.
https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-10.h
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Security Issues:
* CVE-2012-0452
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| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2012:0261-1 |
| Rating: | critical |
| References: | #744625 #744629 #746616 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available. It includes one version update.
Description:
MozillaFirefox was updated to 10.0.1 to fix critical bugs
and security issue.
The following security issue has been fixed:
CVE-2012-0452: Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight and Olli
Pettay found that ReadPrototypeBindings will leave a XBL
binding in a hash table even when the function fails. If
this occurs, when the cycle collector reads this hash
table and attempts to do a virtual method on this binding a
crash will occur. This crash may be potentially
exploitable.
Firefox 9 and earlier are not affected by this
vulnerability.
https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-10.h
tml
Security Issues:
* CVE-2012-0452
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 Server 11 SP1 for VMware:
zypper in -t patch slessp1-MozillaFirefox-5807 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 FOR SP2:
zypper in -t patch slessp1fsp2-MozillaFirefox-5807 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1:
zypper in -t patch slessp1-MozillaFirefox-5807 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 FOR SP2:
zypper in -t patch sledsp1fsp2-MozillaFirefox-5807 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1:
zypper in -t patch sledsp1-MozillaFirefox-5807
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 10.0.1]:
- MozillaFirefox-10.0.1-0.4.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-10.0.1-0.4.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 FOR SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 10.0.1]:
- MozillaFirefox-10.0.1-0.4.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-10.0.1-0.4.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 10.0.1]:
- MozillaFirefox-10.0.1-0.4.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-10.0.1-0.4.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 FOR SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 10.0.1]:
- MozillaFirefox-10.0.1-0.4.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-10.0.1-0.4.1
- mhtml-firefox-0.5-1.47.47.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 10.0.1]:
- MozillaFirefox-10.0.1-0.4.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-10.0.1-0.4.1
- mhtml-firefox-0.5-1.47.47.1
References:
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0452.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/744625
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/744629
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/746616
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=0727d8a4f41b1fef19dc1e8e92fae922