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Fedora Core 5 Update: firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processes certain malformed Javascript code. A malicious web page could cause the execution of Javascript code in such a way that could cause Firefox to crash or execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-5463, CVE-2006-5747, CVE-2006-5748) Several flaws were found in the way Firefox renders web pages. A malicious web page could cause the browser to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-5464) Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains Firefox version 1.5.0.8 that corrects these issues.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-1199
2006-11-08
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : firefox
Version     : 1.5.0.8
Release     : 1.fc5
Summary     : Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
Description :
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability.

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Update Information:

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processes
certain malformed Javascript code. A malicious web page
could cause the execution of Javascript code in such a way
that could cause Firefox to crash or execute arbitrary code
as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-5463, CVE-2006-5747,
CVE-2006-5748)

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox renders web
pages. A malicious web page could cause the browser to crash
or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running
Firefox. (CVE-2006-5464)

Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this update,
which contains Firefox version 1.5.0.8 that corrects these
issues.

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* Tue Nov  7 2006 Christopher Aillon  - 1.5.0.8-1
- Update to 1.5.0.8
- Fix up a few items in the download manager
- Use the bullet character for password fields.
- Add pango printing patch from Behdad.
* Wed Sep 13 2006 Christopher Aillon  - 1.5.0.7-1
- Update to 1.5.0.7
- Bring in pango patches from rawhide to fix MathML and cursor positioning
* Tue Aug  8 2006 Jesse Keating  - 1.5.0.6-2
- Use dist tag
- rebuild
* Thu Aug  3 2006 Kai Engert  - 1.5.0.6-1.1.fc5
- Update to 1.5.0.6
* Thu Jul 27 2006 Christopher Aillon  - 1.5.0.5-1.1.fc5
- Update to 1.5.0.5
* Wed Jun 14 2006 Kai Engert  - 1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5
- Force "gmake -j1" on ppc ppc64 s390 s390x
* Mon Jun 12 2006 Kai Engert  - 1.5.0.4-1.1.fc5
- Firefox 1.5.0.4

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/

b8d3fca6c30bf410c74a4dca8cc85c6fcbf30e4a  SRPMS/firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.src.rpm
b8d3fca6c30bf410c74a4dca8cc85c6fcbf30e4a  noarch/firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.src.rpm
c26fe331a598955189ea3e452bacc4f044eb5c34  ppc/firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.ppc.rpm
faa991ef07e67828f24306773c73181184cc1488  ppc/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.ppc.rpm
74fc091227fa98163013d436982dbb4d02f8842c  x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
669fdce7d244158cbe9c54edb0bd5ea61662144a  x86_64/firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
0591cb8aa48870f4d3aa5606c2a2bd6d523df24a  i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.i386.rpm
9ddc8e80fcac191ee926c063c097117662ec5b7b  i386/firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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