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Posted by Bill Keys   
Previous versions of the firefox package are vulnerable to several types of attacks, some of which are understood to allow compromised or malicious sites to run arbitrary code as the user running firefox.
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Hash: SHA1

Foresight Linux Essential Advisory: 2007-0062-1
Published: 2007-10-28

Rating: Major

Updated Versions:
    firefox=/foresight.rpath.org at fl:1-devel//1/2.0.0.8-2-1[
    group-dist=/foresight.rpath.org at fl:1-devel//1/1.4.1-0.1-11

References:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2894
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1095
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2292
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3511
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5334
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5337
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5338
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5339
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5340

Description:
    Previous versions of the firefox package are vulnerable to several
    types of attacks, some of which are understood to allow compromised
    or malicious sites to run arbitrary code as the user running firefox.

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Copyright 2007 Foresight Linux Project
This file is distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
A copy is available at http://www.foresightlinux.org/permanent/mit-license.html

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