firefox: multiple vulnerabilities
Package(s): | firefox mozilla seamonkey thunderbird | CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1362 CVE-2007-2867 CVE-2007-2868 CVE-2007-2869 CVE-2007-2870 CVE-2007-2871 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Created: | June 4, 2007 | Updated: | August 29, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description: | Various flaws were discovered in the layout and JavaScript engines. By
tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could
execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2007-2867,
CVE-2007-2868)
A flaw was discovered in the form autocomplete feature. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could cause a persistent denial of service. (CVE-2007-2869) Nicolas Derouet discovered flaws in cookie handling. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could force the browser to consume large quantities of disk or memory while processing long cookie paths. (CVE-2007-1362) A flaw was discovered in the same-origin policy handling of the addEventListener JavaScript method. A malicious web site could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such as passwords), of other web pages. (CVE-2007-2870) Chris Thomas discovered a flaw in XUL popups. A malicious web site could exploit this to spoof or obscure portions of the browser UI, such as the location bar. (CVE-2007-2871) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted Jun 14, 2007 3:25 UTC (Thu)
by smithj (guest, #38034)
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Foresight Linux fixed the issue with http://lwn.net/Alerts/236557/
I wonder why neither of these were listed?
Posted Jun 14, 2007 20:12 UTC (Thu)
by ris (subscriber, #5)
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> Foresight Linux fixed the issue with http://lwn.net/Alerts/236557/
> I wonder why neither of these were listed?
Because so far we can only assign alerts to one vulnerability report and
Posted Jun 21, 2007 8:47 UTC (Thu)
by mjcox@redhat.com (guest, #31775)
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rPath fixed this issue with http://lwn.net/Alerts/236560/firefox: multiple vulnerabilities
> rPath fixed this issue with http://lwn.net/Alerts/236560/firefox: multiple vulnerabilities
those alerts are here http://lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/227549/
Red Hat issued updates to correct these issues in RHSA-2007:0400 and RHSA-2007:0402 on 2007-05-31firefox: multiple vulnerabilities