Critical Security Update for Firefox on Scientific Linux SL5.x and SL4.x

Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:47:35 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for firefox on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Critical: firefox security update
Issue date:	2007-11-26
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-5947 CVE-2007-5959 CVE-2007-5960

A cross-site scripting flaw was found in the way Firefox handled the
jar: URI scheme. It was possible for a malicious website to leverage this
flaw and conduct a cross-site scripting attack against a user running
Firefox. (CVE-2007-5947)

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain malformed web
content. A webpage containing malicious content could cause Firefox to
crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2007-5959)

A race condition existed when Firefox set the "window.location" property
for a webpage. This flaw could allow a webpage to set an arbitrary Referer
header, which may lead to a Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack
against websites that rely only on the Referer header for protection.
(CVE-2007-5960)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.el4.i386.rpm
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson