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Fedora Core 6 Update: firefox-1.5.0.12-4.fc6 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain malformed JavaScript code. A web page containing malicious JavaScript code could cause Firefox to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-642
2007-07-20
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Product     : Fedora Core 6
Name        : firefox
Version     : 1.5.0.12
Release     : 4.fc6
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, designed for
standards compliance, performance and portability.

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed
certain malformed JavaScript code. A web page containing
malicious JavaScript code could cause Firefox to crash or
potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running
Firefox. (CVE-2007-3734, CVE-2007-3735)

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox handles certain
JavaScript code. A web page containing malicious JavaScript
code could inject arbitrary content into other web pages.
(CVE-2007-3736, CVE-2007-3089)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox cached web pages on the
local disk. A malicious web page may be able to inject
arbitrary HTML into a browsing session if the user reloads a
targeted site. (CVE-2007-3656)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox processes certain web
content. A web page containing malicious content could
execute arbitrary commands as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2007-3737, CVE-2007-3738)

Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to these erratum
packages, which contain backported patches that correct
these issues.
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* Wed Jul 18 2007 Kai Engert  - 1.5.0.12-4
- fix tar ball mistake
* Wed Jul 18 2007 Kai Engert  - 1.5.0.12-3
- Add a patch to stick with major versions 1.5.0.12 / 1.8.0.12
* Tue Jul 17 2007 Kai Engert  - 1.5.0.12-2
- Update to latest snapshot of Mozilla 1.8.0 branch
- Include patches for Mozilla bugs 379245, 384925, 178993,
  381300 (+382686), 358594 (+380933), 382532 (+382503)

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

04db587478c5865e44645faaa08a2105f9c565e7  SRPMS/firefox-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.src.rpm
04db587478c5865e44645faaa08a2105f9c565e7  noarch/firefox-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.src.rpm
f1b14a2ec88fb32af73367cf268fcce0d9f7a494  ppc/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.ppc.rpm
4810057d98164845f5e773f9371a96f694cb1ec7  ppc/firefox-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.ppc.rpm
b0bdbb8d7799c301f78c63c6d0aedac119869c18  ppc/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.ppc.rpm
ffbe5e5e08488c57799bdc9c68f98f3767c0daf7  x86_64/firefox-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.x86_64.rpm
01bdf0e33965ff1247dd2381ba4ee69739ce9d46  x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.x86_64.rpm
252e41424130a8f463ca63044cc9f4d15cb7d503  x86_64/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.x86_64.rpm
2bfd3305921f9f3e98d92fb2761ab253af92dba8  i386/firefox-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.i386.rpm
dae4f9c1ba9723b94a4b058720e878af23635646  i386/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.i386.rpm
d92d064ee92b21887704d5e7c4560a367573976c  i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-4.fc6.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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