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firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox seamonkey thunderbird CVE #(s):CVE-2008-0412 CVE-2008-0413 CVE-2008-0415 CVE-2008-0417 CVE-2008-0418 CVE-2008-0419 CVE-2008-0591 CVE-2008-0592 CVE-2008-0593
Created:February 8, 2008 Updated:May 21, 2008
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:
Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain malformed web content. A webpage containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-0412, CVE-2008-0413, CVE-2008-0415, CVE-2008-0419)

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox displayed malformed web content. A webpage containing specially-crafted content could trick a user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-0591, CVE-2008-0593)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox stored password data. If a user saves login information for a malicious website, it could be possible to corrupt the password database, preventing the user from properly accessing saved password data. (CVE-2008-0417)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox handles certain chrome URLs. If a user has certain extensions installed, it could allow a malicious website to steal sensitive session data. Note: this flaw does not affect a default installation of Firefox. (CVE-2008-0418)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox saves certain text files. If a website offers a file of type "plain/text", rather than "text/plain", Firefox will not show future "text/plain" content to the user in the browser, forcing them to save those files locally to view the content. (CVE-2008-0592)

Alerts:
Gentoo 200805-18 2008-05-20
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2830 2008-04-01
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2812 2008-04-01
Debian DSA-1506-2 2008-03-20
Debian DSA-1485-2 2008-03-17
rPath rPSA-2008-0093-1 2008-02-29
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:048 2007-02-22
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:062 2007-03-06
Slackware SSA:2008-061-01 2008-03-03
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2118 2008-02-28
Debian DSA-1506-1 2008-02-24
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:008 2008-02-15
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Ubuntu USN-582-2 2008-03-06
Ubuntu USN-582-1 2008-02-29
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2060 2008-02-28
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0105-02 2008-02-27
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1459 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1669 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Foresight FLEA-2008-0001-1 2008-02-11
rPath rPSA-2008-0051-1 2008-02-08
Debian DSA-1489-1 2008-02-10
Debian DSA-1485-1 2008-02-10
Debian DSA-1484-1 2008-02-10
Ubuntu USN-576-1 2008-02-08
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0105-01 2008-02-07
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0104-01 2008-02-07
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0103-01 2008-02-07

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firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Posted Mar 22, 2008 22:14 UTC (Sat) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

This one lists Fedora 2008-1435 and Fedora 2008-1535 lots of times each...

Fedora updates

Posted Mar 23, 2008 0:42 UTC (Sun) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

If you look at those updates, you'll see that they are, in fact, all different - each one is for a different package. See Cascading security updates from last month. It might make sense if the Fedora project gave each its own number, but they don't do that...

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