Security update for Mozilla Firefox
SUSE Security Update: Security update for Mozilla Firefox
MozillaFirefox has been updated to the 17.0.4ESR release
which fixes one important security issue:
* MFSA 2013-29 / CVE-2013-0787: VUPEN Security, via
TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a
use-after-free within the HTML editor when content script
is run by the document.execCommand() function while
internal editor operations are occurring. This could allow
for arbitrary code execution.
Security Issue reference:
* CVE-2013-0787
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| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2013:0470-1 |
| Rating: | important |
| References: | #808243 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. It includes one version update.
Description:
MozillaFirefox has been updated to the 17.0.4ESR release
which fixes one important security issue:
* MFSA 2013-29 / CVE-2013-0787: VUPEN Security, via
TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a
use-after-free within the HTML editor when content script
is run by the document.execCommand() function while
internal editor operations are occurring. This could allow
for arbitrary code execution.
Security Issue reference:
* CVE-2013-0787
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 SP2 for VMware:
zypper in -t patch slessp2-firefox-201303-7464 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch slessp2-firefox-201303-7464 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch sledsp2-firefox-201303-7464
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 17.0.4esr]:
- MozillaFirefox-17.0.4esr-0.5.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.4esr-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 17.0.4esr]:
- MozillaFirefox-17.0.4esr-0.5.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.4esr-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 17.0.4esr]:
- MozillaFirefox-17.0.4esr-0.5.1
- MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.4esr-0.5.1
References:
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0787.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/808243
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=80cb5f45bf32ac42965b90fa93bccfbc