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mozilla: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3977 CVE-2012-3987
Created:October 17, 2012 Updated:October 17, 2012
Description: From the SUSE advisory:

CVE-2012-3977: Security researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo reported that SPDY's request header compression leads to information leakage, which can allow the extraction of private data such as session cookies, even over an encrypted SSL connection. (This does not affect Firefox 10 as it does not feature the SPDY extension. It was silently fixed for Firefox 15.)

CVE-2012-3987: Security researcher Warren He reported that when a page is transitioned into Reader Mode in Firefox for Android, the resulting page has chrome privileges and its content is not thoroughly sanitized. A successful attack requires user enabling of reader mode for a malicious page, which could then perform an attack similar to cross-site scripting (XSS) to gain the privileges allowed to Firefox on an Android device. This has been fixed by changing the Reader Mode page into an unprivileged page.

Alerts:
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:1351-1 2012-10-16
Gentoo 201301-01 2013-01-07

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