Fedora Core 4: 2005-871 Critical: firefox Crash Risk Fix

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards

compliance, performance and portability.

An updated firefox package that fixes as security bug is now

available for Fedora Core 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security

impact by the Fedora Security Response Team.

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.

A bug was found in the way Firefox processes certain

international domain names. An attacker could create a

specially crafted HTML file, which when viewed by the victim

would cause Firefox to crash or possibly execute arbitrary

code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project

(cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-2871 to this

issue.

Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this updated

package that contains a backported patch and is not

vulnerable to this issue.

- Fix for CAN-2005-2871

a6ec66de684e73394a2ebb56ff6e2e9e SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.src.rpm

637e26b2300c31bb389cf2b64adbc69a ppc/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.ppc.rpm

5adf6c32862c8f7fc8f4d4f9d60e24d3 ppc/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.ppc.rpm

910c10516d4b87897305e65de5454f07 x86_64/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.x86_64.rpm

2531a6ba8fb7ee37c76ba15a48c5c604 x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.x86_64.rpm

565abda143b792221a4c28ad1f010812 i386/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.i386.rpm

e2655d8e82e9652b5db877c77856acc5 i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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