SUSE Security Update: Security update for Mozilla Firefox
______________________________________________________________________________

Announcement ID:    SUSE-SU-2013:0410-1
Rating:             important
References:         #804248 #806669 
Cross-References:   CVE-2013-0765 CVE-2013-0772 CVE-2013-0773
                    CVE-2013-0774 CVE-2013-0775 CVE-2013-0776
                    CVE-2013-0780 CVE-2013-0782 CVE-2013-0783
                   
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2
______________________________________________________________________________

   An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available. It
   includes three new package versions.

Description:


   MozillaFirefox has been updated to the 17.0.3ESR release.

   Important: due to compatibility issues, the Beagle plug-in
   for  MozillaFirefox is temporarily disabled by this update.

   Besides the major version update from the 10ESR stable
   release line to the  17ESR stable release line, this update
   brings critical security and  bugfixes:

   *

   MFSA 2013-28: Security researcher Abhishek Arya
   (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the
   Address Sanitizer tool to discover a series of
   use-after-free, out of bounds read, and buffer overflow
   problems rated as low to critical security issues in
   shipped software. Some of these issues are potentially
   exploitable, allowing for remote code execution. We would
   also like to thank Abhishek for reporting four additional
   use-after-free and out of bounds write flaws introduced
   during Firefox development that were fixed before general
   release.

   *

   The following issues have been fixed in Firefox 19
   and ESR 17.0.3:

   o Heap-use-after-free in
   nsOverflowContinuationTracker::Finish, with -moz-columns
   (CVE-2013-0780) o Heap-buffer-overflow WRITE in
   nsSaveAsCharset::DoCharsetConversion (CVE-2013-0782)
   *

   MFSA 2013-27 / CVE-2013-0776: Google security
   researcher Michal Zalewski reported an issue where the
   browser displayed the content of a proxy's 407 response if
   a user canceled the proxy's authentication prompt. In this
   circumstance, the addressbar will continue to show the
   requested site's address, including HTTPS addresses that
   appear to be secure. This spoofing of addresses can be used
   for phishing attacks by fooling users into entering
   credentials, for example.

   *

   MFSA 2013-26 / CVE-2013-0775: Security researcher
   Nils reported a use-after-free in nsImageLoadingContent
   when content script is executed. This could allow for
   arbitrary code execution.

   *

   MFSA 2013-25 / CVE-2013-0774: Mozilla security
   researcher Frederik Braun discovered that since Firefox 15
   the file system location of the active browser profile was
   available to JavaScript workers. While not dangerous by
   itself, this could potentially be combined with other
   vulnerabilities to target the profile in an attack.

   *

   MFSA 2013-24 / CVE-2013-0773: Mozilla developer Bobby
   Holley discovered that it was possible to bypass some
   protections in Chrome Object Wrappers (COW) and System Only
   Wrappers (SOW), making their prototypes mutable by web
   content. This could be used leak information from chrome
   objects and possibly allow for arbitrary code execution.

   *

   MFSA 2013-23 / CVE-2013-0765: Mozilla developer Boris
   Zbarsky reported that in some circumstances a wrapped
   WebIDL object can be wrapped multiple times, overwriting
   the existing wrapped state. This could lead to an
   exploitable condition in rare cases.

   *

   MFSA 2013-22 / CVE-2013-0772: Using the Address
   Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen from
   OUSPG found an out-of-bounds read while rendering GIF
   format images. This could cause a non-exploitable crash and
   could also attempt to render normally inaccesible data as
   part of the image.

   *

   MFSA 2013-21: 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.

   Olli Pettay, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jesse
   Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Joe Drew, and Wayne Mery
   reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect
   Firefox ESR 17, and Firefox 18.

   *

   Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 17.0.3, and
   Firefox 19 (CVE-2013-0783).

   Security Issue references:

   * CVE-2013-0780
   
   * CVE-2013-0782
   
   * CVE-2013-0776
   
   * CVE-2013-0775
   
   * CVE-2013-0774
   
   * CVE-2013-0773
   
   * CVE-2013-0765
   
   * CVE-2013-0772
   
   * CVE-2013-0783
   


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 Software Development Kit 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch sdksp2-firefox-201303-7447

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware:

      zypper in -t patch slessp2-firefox-201303-7447

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch slessp2-firefox-201303-7447

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch sledsp2-firefox-201303-7447

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.14.2 and 4.9.5]:

      mozilla-nspr-devel-4.9.5-0.3.2
      mozilla-nss-devel-3.14.2-0.4.3.2

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 s390x x86_64):

      beagle-0.3.8-56.51.1
      beagle-lang-0.3.8-56.44.45.129

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64):

      beagle-devel-0.3.8-56.51.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 17.0.3esr,3.14.2 and 4.9.5]:

      MozillaFirefox-17.0.3esr-0.4.4.1
      MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.3esr-0.4.4.1
      libfreebl3-3.14.2-0.4.3.2
      mozilla-nspr-4.9.5-0.3.2
      mozilla-nss-3.14.2-0.4.3.2
      mozilla-nss-tools-3.14.2-0.4.3.2

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (x86_64) [New Version: 3.14.2 and 4.9.5]:

      libfreebl3-32bit-3.14.2-0.4.3.2
      mozilla-nspr-32bit-4.9.5-0.3.2
      mozilla-nss-32bit-3.14.2-0.4.3.2

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 17.0.3esr,3.14.2 and 4.9.5]:

      MozillaFirefox-17.0.3esr-0.4.4.1
      MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED-7-0.6.9.5
      MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.3esr-0.4.4.1
      libfreebl3-3.14.2-0.4.3.2
      mozilla-nspr-4.9.5-0.3.2
      mozilla-nss-3.14.2-0.4.3.2
      mozilla-nss-tools-3.14.2-0.4.3.2

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.14.2 and 4.9.5]:

      libfreebl3-32bit-3.14.2-0.4.3.2
      mozilla-nspr-32bit-4.9.5-0.3.2
      mozilla-nss-32bit-3.14.2-0.4.3.2

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (ia64) [New Version: 3.14.2 and 4.9.5]:

      libfreebl3-x86-3.14.2-0.4.3.2
      mozilla-nspr-x86-4.9.5-0.3.2
      mozilla-nss-x86-3.14.2-0.4.3.2

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 17.0.3esr,3.14.2 and 4.9.5]:

      MozillaFirefox-17.0.3esr-0.4.4.1
      MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED-7-0.6.9.5
      MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.3esr-0.4.4.1
      beagle-0.3.8-56.51.1
      beagle-evolution-0.3.8-56.51.1
      beagle-firefox-0.3.8-56.51.1
      beagle-gui-0.3.8-56.51.1
      beagle-lang-0.3.8-56.51.1
      libfreebl3-3.14.2-0.4.3.2
      mhtml-firefox-0.5-1.47.51.5
      mozilla-nspr-4.9.5-0.3.2
      mozilla-nss-3.14.2-0.4.3.2
      mozilla-nss-tools-3.14.2-0.4.3.2

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (x86_64) [New Version: 3.14.2 and 4.9.5]:

      libfreebl3-32bit-3.14.2-0.4.3.2
      mozilla-nspr-32bit-4.9.5-0.3.2
      mozilla-nss-32bit-3.14.2-0.4.3.2


References:

   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0765.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0772.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0773.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0774.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0775.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0776.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0780.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0782.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0783.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/804248
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/806669
   https://login.microfocus.com/nidp/app/login

SuSE: 2013:0410-1: important: Mozilla Firefox

March 8, 2013
An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

MozillaFirefox has been updated to the 17.0.3ESR release. Important: due to compatibility issues, the Beagle plug-in for MozillaFirefox is temporarily disabled by this update. Besides the major version update from the 10ESR stable release line to the 17ESR stable release line, this update brings critical security and bugfixes: * MFSA 2013-28: Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a series of use-after-free, out of bounds read, and buffer overflow problems rated as low to critical security issues in shipped software. Some of these issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution. We would also like to thank Abhishek for reporting four additional use-after-free and out of bounds write flaws introduced during Firefox development that were fixed before general release. * The following issues have been fixed in ...

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References

#804248 #806669

Cross- CVE-2013-0765 CVE-2013-0772 CVE-2013-0773

CVE-2013-0774 CVE-2013-0775 CVE-2013-0776

CVE-2013-0780 CVE-2013-0782 CVE-2013-0783

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0765.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0772.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0773.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0774.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0775.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0776.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0780.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0782.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0783.html

https://bugzill...

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Severity
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:0410-1
Rating: important

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