[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2011:0958-1: important: MozillaFirefox: Update to Firefox 3.6.20

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openSUSE Security Update: MozillaFirefox: Update to Firefox 3.6.20

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:0958-1

Rating: important

References: #712224

Cross-References: CVE-2011-0084 CVE-2011-2378 CVE-2011-2980

CVE-2011-2981 CVE-2011-2982 CVE-2011-2983

CVE-2011-2984

Affected Products:

openSUSE 11.3

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An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available. It

includes two new package versions.

 

Description:

 

Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.6.20.

 

It fixes bugs and security issues. Following security

issues were fixed:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.ht

ml Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-30 (MFSA

2011-30)

 

* Miscellaneous memory safety hazards

 

Mozilla developers and community members identified and

fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used

in Firefox 3.6 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.

 

Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, Nils and Bob Clary reported

memory safety issues which affected Firefox 3.6.

(CVE-2011-2982)

 

* Crash in SVGTextElement.getCharNumAtPosition()

 

Security researcher regenrecht reported via

TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that a SVG text

manipulation routine contained a dangling pointer

vulnerability. (CVE-2011-0084)

 

* Privilege escalation using event handlers

 

Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a_4 reported a

vulnerability in event management code that would permit

JavaScript to be run in the wrong context, including that

of a different website or potentially in a

chrome-privileged context. (CVE-2011-2981)

 

* Dangling pointer vulnerability in appendChild

 

Security researcher regenrecht reported via

TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that appendChild did

not correctly account for DOM objects it operated upon and

could be exploited to dereference an invalid pointer.

(CVE-2011-2378)

 

* Privilege escalation dropping a tab element in content

area

 

Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that

web content could receive chrome privileges if it

registered for drop events and a browser tab element was

dropped into the content area. (CVE-2011-2984)

 

* Binary planting vulnerability in ThinkPadSensor::Startup

 

Security researcher Mitja Kolsek of Acros Security

reported that ThinkPadSensor::Startup could potentially be

exploited to load a malicious DLL into the running process.

(CVE-2011-2980) (This issue is likely Windows only)

 

* Private data leakage using RegExp.input

 

Security researcher shutdown reported that data from

other domains could be read when RegExp.input was set.

(CVE-2011-2983)

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- openSUSE 11.3:

 

zypper in -t patch MozillaFirefox-5013

 

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

 

 

Package List:

 

- openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.20 and 3.6.20]:

 

MozillaFirefox-3.6.20-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-3.6.20-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-3.6.20-0.2.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-other-3.6.20-0.2.1

mozilla-js192-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-buildsymbols-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-devel-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-common-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-other-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

 

- openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) [New Version: 1.9.2.20]:

 

mozilla-js192-32bit-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-32bit-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-32bit-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-common-32bit-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-other-32bit-1.9.2.20-1.2.1

 

 

References:

 

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0084.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2378.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2980.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2981.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2982.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2983.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2984.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/712224

 

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