[SUSE-Announcements] BES Auto Notification: New Fixlets Published in Fixlet Site: PatchesforSUSELinuxEnterprise

Thu Oct 22 03:10:06 PDT 2009

Fixlet Site - PatchesforSUSELinuxEnterprise
Current Version: 260	Published: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:32:22  GMT

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Title: PATCH-12521 - Security update for epiphany - SLES9
Severity: <Unspecified>
Fixlet ID: 1252101
Fixlet Link: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=go4OZ-K6LMQ~

Fixlet Description: seamonkey was updated to version 1.1.18, fixing various security issues:   MFSA 2009-43 / CVE-2009-2404 Moxie Marlinspike reported a heap overflow vulnerability in the code that handles regular expressions in certificate names. This vulnerability could be used to compromise the browser and run arbitrary code by presenting a specially crafted certificate to the client. This code provided compatibility with the non-standard regular expression syntax historically supported by Netscape clients and servers. With version 3.5 Firefox switched to the more limited industry-standard wildcard syntax instead and is not vulnerable to this flaw. MFSA 2009-42 / CVE-2009-2408: IOActive security researcher Dan Kaminsky reported a mismatch in the treatment of domain names in SSL certificates between SSL clients and the Certificate Authorities (CA) which issue server certificates. In particular, if a malicious person requested a certificate for a host name with an invalid null character in it most CAs would issue the certificate if the requester owned the domain specified after the null, while most SSL clients (browsers) ignored that part of the name and used the unvalidated part in front of the null. This made it possible for attackers to obtain certificates that would function for any site they wished to target. These certificates could be used to intercept and potentially alter encrypted communication between the client and a server such as sensitive bank account transactions. This vulnerability was independently reported to us by researcher Moxie Marlinspike who also noted that since Firefox relies on SSL to protect the integrity of security updates this attack could be used to serve malicious updates. Mozilla would like to thank Dan and the Microsoft Vulnerability Research team for coordinating a multiple-vendor response to this problem. Please install this update. Please see patch page for more detailed information.

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Title: PATCH-B9101902 - Security update for Mozilla Firefox - SLES10 SP2
Severity: <Unspecified>
Fixlet ID: 910190203
Fixlet Link: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=Yb14cfGgUoM~

Fixlet Description: This update brings the Mozilla Firefox 3.5 webbrowser to version 3.5.3, the Mozilla XULRunner 1.9.0 engine to the 1.9.0.14 stable release, and the Mozilla XULRunner 1.9.1 engine to the 1.9.1.3 stable release. It also fixes various security issues:   MFSA 2009-47 / CVE-2009-3069 / CVE-2009-3070 / CVE-2009-3071 / CVE-2009-3072 / CVE-2009-3073 / CVE-2009-30 / CVE-2009-3075: Mozilla developers and community members identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes 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. MFSA 2009-48 / CVE-2009-3076: Mozilla security researcher Jesse Rudermanreported that when security modules were added or removed via pkcs11. addmodule or pkcs11. deletemodule, the resulting dialog was not sufficiently informative. Without sufficient warning, an attacker could entice a victim to install a malicious PKCS11 module and affect the cryptographic integrity of the victim's browser. Security researcher Dan Kaminsky reported that this issue had not been fixed in Firefox 3.0 and that under certain circumstances pkcs11 modules could be installed from a remote location. Firefox 3.5 releases are not affected. MFSA 2009-49 / CVE-2009-3077: An anonymous security researcher, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported that the columns of a XUL tree element could be manipulated in a particular way which would leave a pointer owned by the column pointing to freed memory. An attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to crash a victim's browser and run arbitrary code on the victim's computer. MFSA 2009-50 / CVE-2009-3078: Security researcher Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian reported that the default Windows font used to render the locationbar and other text fields was improperly displaying certain Unicode characters with tall line-height. In such cases the tall line-height would cause the rest of the text in the input field to be scrolled vertically out of view. An attacker could use this vulnerability to prevent a user from seeing the URL of a malicious site. Corrie Sloot also independently reported this issue to Mozilla. MFSA 2009-51 / CVE-2009-3079: Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that the BrowserFeedWriter could be leveraged to run JavaScript code from web content with elevated privileges. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could construct an object containing malicious JavaScript and cause the FeedWriter to process the object, running the malicious code with chrome privileges. Thunderbird does not support the BrowserFeedWriter object and is not vulnerable in its default configuration. Thunderbird might be vulnerable if the user has installed any add-on which adds a similarly implemented feature and then enables JavaScript in mail messages. This is not the default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail. Install this update. Please see patch page for more detailed information.

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Title: PATCH-B9101902 - Dependency Needed - SLES10 SP2
Severity: <Unspecified>
Fixlet ID: 910190204
Fixlet Link: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=Yb14cfGgUoM~

Fixlet Description: Updated Mozilla Firefox packages are now available for SuSE Linux Enterprise 10. However, these packages have a dependency that must be resolved. The following packages must be installed at the specified version or greater :  firefox3-atk-1.12.3-0.4.2.i586.rpm firefox3-cairo-1.2.4-0.4.2.i586.rpm firefox3-glib2-2.12.4-0.4.2.i586.rpm firefox3-gtk2-2.10.6-0.4.2.i586.rpm mozilla-nspr-4.8-1.4.2.i586.rpm mozilla-nss-3.12.3.1-1.4.2.i586.rpm