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firefox: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):firefox CVE #(s):CVE-2009-1313
Created:April 28, 2009 Updated:May 13, 2009
Description: From the Red Hat advisory: A flaw was found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:111 2009-05-12
Ubuntu USN-765-1 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4083 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-4078 2009-04-28
CentOS CESA-2009:0449 2009-04-28
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0449-01 2009-04-27
Gentoo 201301-01 2013-01-07

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firefox: arbitrary code execution

Posted May 1, 2009 23:41 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Why are the Fedora advisories listed several times? Scared me (longtime Fedora user) a boatload until I noticed...

firefox: arbitrary code execution

Posted May 2, 2009 0:27 UTC (Sat) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> Why are the Fedora advisories listed several times?

well, the problem is that Fedora reuses the same ID for all of the cascading advisories that result from a Firefox update. If you click through, you will see that each entry is for a separate package, but each has the same ID.

jake

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