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Ubuntu 18.04: 2020-455 High Severity: Firefox JavaScript Flaw

fedora
Calendar Grey July 20, 2007
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Mozilla recently released an update for Firefox that resolves vulnerabilities that could lead to system crashes or permit the execution of arbitrary code via harmful JavaScript.
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 malf...

Summary

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

compliance, performance and portability.

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.

- 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)

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 .

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Name: firefox
Version: 1.5.0.12
Release: 4.fc6
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

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