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Scientific Linux: Critical Firefox Update for SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3.x

Calendar Jul 19, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Critical: firefox security update 
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:05:27 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for firefox on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3,x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Critical: firefox security update
Issue date:	2007-07-18
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-3089 CVE-2007-3656 CVE-2007-3734
 CVE-2007-3735 CVE-2007-3736 CVE-2007-3737
 CVE-2007-3738

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, CVE-2007-3737,
CVE-2007-3738)

Several content injection flaws were found in the way Firefox handled
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)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
	firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.SL3.src.rpm
 i386:
	firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
	firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.SL3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
	firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
	firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.el4.i386.rpm
	firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
	firefox-1.5.0.12-3.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
	firefox-1.5.0.12-3.el5.i386.rpm
	firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-3.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	firefox-1.5.0.12-3.el5.i386.rpm
	firefox-1.5.0.12-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
	firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-3.el5.i386.rpm
	firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-3.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson