SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (SAT Patch Number 8491)

Mozilla Firefox has been updated to the 17.0.10ESR release, which fixes various bugs and security issues : - Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory...

Use-after-free when updating offline cache — Mozilla

Security researcher Byoungyoung Lee of Georgia Tech Information Security Center GTISC used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free during state change events while updating the offline cache. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash...

Kraken-Based Botnet Makes A Comeback

Since April, a son-of-Kraken botnet has infected an estimated 318,058 machines – about half as big as the original Kraken was at its height in the middle of 2008, according to Paul Royal, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. Read the full article. The Register...