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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-2662 (firefox)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: firefox-2.0.0.13-1.fc7
Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:11:47 +0000
Message-ID:  <200803261717.m2QHHVG4004301@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2662 2008-03-26 16:45:26 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : firefox Product : Fedora 7 Version : 2.0.0.13 Release : 1.fc7 URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ 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 processing of some malformed web content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1235, CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237) Several flaws were found in the display of malformed web content. A web page containing specially-crafted content could, potentially, trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-1234, CVE-2008-1238, CVE-2008-1241) All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues, and are rebuilt against the update Firefox packages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Mar 25 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 2.0.0.13-1 - Update to 2.0.0.13 * Fri Feb 8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 2.0.0.12-1 - Update to 2.0.0.12 * Wed Nov 28 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 2.0.0.10-2 - Make Canvas.drawImage work again * Mon Nov 26 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 2.0.0.10-1 - Update to 2.0.0.10 * Mon Nov 5 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 2.0.0.9-1 - Update to 2.0.0.9 * Fri Oct 19 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.0.0.8-1 - Update to 2.0.0.8 * Tue Oct 16 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - added fix for #246248 - firefox crashes when searching * Wed Jul 18 2007 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 2.0.0.5-1 - Update to 2.0.0.5 * Fri Jun 29 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> 2.0.0.4-3 - backported pango patches from FC6 (1.5.0.12) * Sun Jun 3 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 2.0.0.4-2 - Properly clean up threads with newer NSPR * Wed May 30 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 2.0.0.4-1 - Final version * Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 2.0.0.4-0.rc3 - Update to 2.0.0.4 RC3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #438715 - CVE-2008-1234 universal XSS using event handlers https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438715 [ 2 ] Bug #438713 - CVE-2008-1233 Mozilla products XPCNativeWrapper pollution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438713 [ 3 ] Bug #438718 - CVE-2008-1236 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438718 [ 4 ] Bug #438724 - CVE-2008-1238 Referrer spoofing bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438724 [ 5 ] Bug #438721 - CVE-2008-1237 javascript crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438721 [ 6 ] Bug #438730 - CVE-2008-1241 XUL popup spoofing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438730 [ 7 ] Bug #438717 - CVE-2008-1235 chrome privilege via wrong principal https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438717 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update firefox' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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