The Firefox browser (and Mozilla as well) suffers from several vulnerabilities which can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. See this advisory for a discussion of the worst two. Upgrading to version 1.0.4 will fix the problems.
Posted May 19, 2005 16:49 UTC (Thu) by lurk546 (subscriber, #17438)
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How does LWN get word of the updates to various distributions?
I was surprised to not see an update for gentoo. I checked gentoo's online package database and, per the change log, Firefox 1.0.4 was marked stable on the 13th.
firefox: multiple vulnerabilities
Posted Jun 2, 2005 8:09 UTC (Thu) by mjc@redhat.com (guest, #2303)
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