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Fedora alert FEDORA-2006-1199 (firefox)

From:  "Christopher Aillon" <caillon@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5
Date:  Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:15:01 -0500

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-1199 2006-11-08 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 5 Name : firefox Version : 1.5.0.8 Release : 1.fc5 Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser. Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processes certain malformed Javascript code. A malicious web page could cause the execution of Javascript code in such a way that could cause Firefox to crash or execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-5463, CVE-2006-5747, CVE-2006-5748) Several flaws were found in the way Firefox renders web pages. A malicious web page could cause the browser to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-5464) Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains Firefox version 1.5.0.8 that corrects these issues. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue Nov 7 2006 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.5.0.8-1 - Update to 1.5.0.8 - Fix up a few items in the download manager - Use the bullet character for password fields. - Add pango printing patch from Behdad. * Wed Sep 13 2006 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.5.0.7-1 - Update to 1.5.0.7 - Bring in pango patches from rawhide to fix MathML and cursor positioning * Tue Aug 8 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 1.5.0.6-2 - Use dist tag - rebuild * Thu Aug 3 2006 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 1.5.0.6-1.1.fc5 - Update to 1.5.0.6 * Thu Jul 27 2006 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.5.0.5-1.1.fc5 - Update to 1.5.0.5 * Wed Jun 14 2006 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5 - Force "gmake -j1" on ppc ppc64 s390 s390x * Mon Jun 12 2006 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 1.5.0.4-1.1.fc5 - Firefox 1.5.0.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... b8d3fca6c30bf410c74a4dca8cc85c6fcbf30e4a SRPMS/firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.src.rpm b8d3fca6c30bf410c74a4dca8cc85c6fcbf30e4a noarch/firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.src.rpm c26fe331a598955189ea3e452bacc4f044eb5c34 ppc/firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.ppc.rpm faa991ef07e67828f24306773c73181184cc1488 ppc/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.ppc.rpm 74fc091227fa98163013d436982dbb4d02f8842c x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm 669fdce7d244158cbe9c54edb0bd5ea61662144a x86_64/firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm 0591cb8aa48870f4d3aa5606c2a2bd6d523df24a i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.i386.rpm 9ddc8e80fcac191ee926c063c097117662ec5b7b i386/firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.i386.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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