SUSE-SU-2012:0221-1: important: Security update for Mozilla Firefox

Thu Feb 9 11:10:21 MST 2012

   SUSE Security Update: Security update for Mozilla Firefox
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-SU-2012:0221-1
Rating:             important
References:         #744275 
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 two new package versions.

Description:

   Mozilla Firefox was updated to 3.6.26 fixing bugs and
   security issues.

   The following security issues have been fixed by this
   update:

   *

   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

   *

   CVE-2012-0442: Jesse Ruderman and Bob Clary reported
   memory safety problems that were fixed in both Firefox 10
   and Firefox 3.6.26.

   *

   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.

   *

   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.

   *

   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.

   *

   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.

Special Instructions and Notes:

   Please reboot the system after installing this update.

Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

      mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.26-0.5.1
      mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.26-0.5.1
      mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-1.9.2.26-0.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x) [New Version: 3.6.26]:

      MozillaFirefox-3.6.26-0.6.1
      MozillaFirefox-translations-3.6.26-0.6.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (s390x x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

      mozilla-xulrunner192-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.5.1
      mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.5.1
      mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

      mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.26-0.5.1
      mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.26-0.5.1
      mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-1.9.2.26-0.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.26]:

      mozilla-xulrunner192-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.5.1
      mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.5.1
      mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-32bit-1.9.2.26-0.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586) [New Version: 3.6.26]:

      MozillaFirefox-3.6.26-0.6.1
      MozillaFirefox-translations-3.6.26-0.6.1

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

      MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-3.6.26-0.6.1

References:

   https://bugzilla.novell.com/744275
   http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=d1ff5a0e9707cb73c751a65b6759427d