Scientific Linux 4.x/5.x: CVE-2008-1380 Critical Firefox Security Update

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:25:59 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for firefox on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Critical: firefox security update
Issue date:	2008-04-16
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1380

A flaw was found in the processing of malformed JavaScript content. A web
page containing such malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2008-1380)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.15.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.15.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.15.el4.i386.rpm
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.15.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-1.5.0.12-15.el5_1.src.rpm
 i386:
firefox-1.5.0.12-15.el5_1.i386.rpm
firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-15.el5_1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
firefox-1.5.0.12-15.el5_1.i386.rpm
firefox-1.5.0.12-15.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-15.el5_1.i386.rpm
firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-15.el5_1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson