[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:0470-1: important: Security update for Mozilla Firefox

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for Mozilla Firefox

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:0470-1

Rating: important

References: #808243

Cross-References: CVE-2013-0787

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. It

includes one version update.

 

Description:

 

 

MozillaFirefox has been updated to the 17.0.4ESR release

which fixes one important security issue:

 

* MFSA 2013-29 / CVE-2013-0787: VUPEN Security, via

TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a

use-after-free within the HTML editor when content script

is run by the document.execCommand() function while

internal editor operations are occurring. This could allow

for arbitrary code execution.

 

Security Issue reference:

 

* CVE-2013-0787

 

 

 

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 Server 11 SP2 for VMware:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp2-firefox-201303-7464

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp2-firefox-201303-7464

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:

 

zypper in -t patch sledsp2-firefox-201303-7464

 

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

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 17.0.4esr]:

 

MozillaFirefox-17.0.4esr-0.5.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.4esr-0.5.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 17.0.4esr]:

 

MozillaFirefox-17.0.4esr-0.5.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.4esr-0.5.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 17.0.4esr]:

 

MozillaFirefox-17.0.4esr-0.5.1

MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.4esr-0.5.1

 

 

References:

 

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0787.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/808243

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=80cb5f45bf32ac42965b90fa93bccfbc

 

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