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firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox CVE #(s):CVE-2008-2785 CVE-2008-2933
Created:July 16, 2008 Updated:August 8, 2008
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed certain web content. A malicious web site could cause Firefox to crash, or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-2785)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled certain command line URLs. If another application passed Firefox a malformed URL, it could result in Firefox executing local malicious content with chrome privileges. (CVE-2008-2933)

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6706 2008-08-07
Gentoo 200808-03 2008-08-06
Ubuntu USN-626-2 2008-08-04
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6737 2008-08-07
Ubuntu USN-629-1 2008-07-25
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0616-01 2008-07-23
Debian DSA-1615-1 2008-07-23
Debian DSA-1614-1 2008-07-23
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6518 2008-07-18
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:148 2008-07-17
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0597-01 2008-07-16
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0598-02 2008-07-16
CentOS CESA-2008:0598 2008-07-16
CentOS CESA-2008:0616 2008-07-24
rPath rPSA-2008-0238-1 2008-07-28
Ubuntu USN-626-1 2008-07-29
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:155-1 2008-07-27
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:155 2008-07-25
Debian DSA-1621-1 2008-07-27
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6518 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6519 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6518 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6518 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6518 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6518 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6517 2008-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18
Ubuntu USN-623-1 2008-07-17
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0599-01 2008-07-16
CentOS CESA-2008:0597 2008-07-16
CentOS CESA-2008:0599 2008-07-16

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