SUSE-SU-2012:0425-1: critical: Security update for Mozilla Firefox

Wed Mar 28 22:08:18 MDT 2012

   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:

   *

   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

   *

   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.

   *

   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.

   *

   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/
   <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