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SuSE Security Advisory SUSE-SA:2009:022 (MozillaFirefox)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

SuSE Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

9.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory SUSE-SA:2009:022.

Insight

Insight

The Mozilla Firefox Browser was updated to the 3.0.8 release. It fixes two critical security issues: MFSA 2009-13 / CVE-2009-1044: Security researcher Nils reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that the XUL tree method _moveToEdgeShift was in some cases triggering garbage collection routines on objects which were still in use. In such cases, the browser would crash when attempting to access a previously destroyed object and this crash could be used by an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer. This vulnerability was used by the reporter to win the 2009 CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest. This vulnerability does not affect Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2, or released versions of SeaMonkey. MFSA 2009-12 / CVE-2009-1169:Security researcher Guido Landi discovered that a XSL stylesheet could be used to crash the browser during a XSL transformation. An attacker could potentially use this crash to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer. This vulnerability was also previously reported as a stability problem by Ubuntu community member, Andre. Ubuntu community member Michael Rooney reported Andre's findings to Mozilla, and Mozilla community member Martin helped reduce Andre's original test case and contributed a patch to fix the vulnerability.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the packages as indicated in the referenced security advisory. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=SUSE-SA:2009:022

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