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Category: SuSE Local Security Checks Risk factor: High Added: 9 Oct 2008
Synopsis:

The remote SuSE system is missing the security patch mozilla-xulrunner181-5656.

Description:

This update brings mozilla-xulrunner181 to security fix version 1.8.1.17.

It contains the following security fixes: MFSA 2008-45 /
CVE-2008-4069: XBM image uninitialized memory reading

MFSA 2008-44 / CVE-2008-4067 / CVE-2008-4068: resource: traversal vulnerabilities

MFSA 2008-43: BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution CVE-2008-4065: Stripped BOM characters bug CVE-2008-4066: HTML escaped low surrogates bug

MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption
(rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17): CVE-2008-4061: Jesse Ruderman reported a crash in the layout engine. CVE-2008-4062: Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski, and Antoine Labour reported crashes in the JavaScript engine. CVE-2008-4063: Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, and Martijn Wargers reported crashes in the layout engine which only affected Firefox 3. CVE-2008-4064: David Maciejak and Drew Yao reported crashes in graphics rendering which only affected Firefox 3.

MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution CVE-2008-4058: XPCnativeWrapper pollution bugs CVE-2008-4059: XPCnativeWrapper pollution (Firefox 2) CVE-2008-4060: Documents without script handling objects

MFSA 2008-40 / CVE-2008-3837: Forced mouse drag

MFSA 2008-39 / CVE-2008-3836: Privilege escalation using feed preview page and XSS flaw

MFSA 2008-38 / CVE-2008-3835:
nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation

MFSA 2008-37 / CVE-2008-0016: UTF-8 URL stack buffer
overflow

For more details:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefo
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Solution:

Install the security patch mozilla-xulrunner181-5656.

Risk factor:

High

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