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ELSA-2013-0696 Critical: Oracle Linux firefox security update

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ELSA-2013-0696 Critical: Oracle Linux firefox security update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/03/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/11/2013
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

The WebGL subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.17 on Linux does not properly interact with Mesa drivers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (free of unallocated memory) via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-firefox
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-xulrunner
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-xulrunner-devel

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