Scientific Linux: Critical Firefox Security Update for SL 5.2

Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 16:22:34 -0500
Reply-To: Connie Sieh 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA for firefox on SL 5.2 i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific 

Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update

CVE Names: CVE-2008-2798 CVE-2008-2799 CVE-2008-2800
 CVE-2008-2801 CVE-2008-2802 CVE-2008-2803
 CVE-2008-2805 CVE-2008-2807 CVE-2008-2808
 CVE-2008-2809 CVE-2008-2810 CVE-2008-2811

Description:

Multiple flaws were 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-2008-2801, CVE-2008-2802, CVE-2008-2803)

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web
page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2811)

Several flaws were found in the way malformed web content was displayed. A
web page containing specially-crafted content could potentially trick a
Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-2800)

Two local file disclosure flaws were found in Firefox. A web page
containing malicious content could cause Firefox to reveal the contents of
a local file to a remote attacker. (CVE-2008-2805, CVE-2008-2810)

A flaw was found in the way a malformed.properties file was processed by
Firefox. A malicious extension could read uninitialized memory, possibly
leaking sensitive data to the extension. (CVE-2008-2807)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox escaped a listing of local file names.
If a user could be tricked into listing a local directory containing
malicious file names, arbitrary JavaScript could be run with the
permissions of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-2808)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed information about self-signed
certificates. It was possible for a self-signed certificate to contain
multiple alternate name entries, which were not all displayed to the user,
allowing them to mistakenly extend trust to an unknown site.
(CVE-2008-2809)

SRPMS:
 devhelp-0.12-17.el5.src.rpm
 nss-3.12.0.3-1.el5.src.rpm
 firefox-3.0-2.el5.src.rpm
 xulrunner-1.9-1.el5.src.rpm
 nspr-4.7.1-1.el5.src.rpm
 yelp-2.16.0-19.el5.src.rpm

SL 5.2 i386:

 devhelp-0.12-17.el5.i386.rpm
 devhelp-devel-0.12-17.el5.i386.rpm
 firefox-3.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
 nspr-4.7.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
 nspr-devel-4.7.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
 nss-3.12.0.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
 nss-devel-3.12.0.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
 nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.0.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
 nss-tools-3.12.0.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
 xulrunner-1.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
 xulrunner-devel-1.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
 xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
 yelp-2.16.0-19.el5.i386.rpm

SL 5.2 x86_64

 devhelp-0.12-17.el5.i386.rpm
 devhelp-0.12-17.el5.x86_64.rpm
 devhelp-devel-0.12-17.el5.i386.rpm
 devhelp-devel-0.12-17.el5.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-3.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
 firefox-3.0-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
 nspr-4.7.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
 nspr-4.7.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 nspr-devel-4.7.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
 nspr-devel-4.7.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 nss-3.12.0.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
 nss-3.12.0.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 nss-devel-3.12.0.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
 nss-devel-3.12.0.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.0.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
 nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.0.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 nss-tools-3.12.0.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 xulrunner-1.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
 xulrunner-1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 xulrunner-devel-1.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
 xulrunner-devel-1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 yelp-2.16.0-19.el5.x86_64.rpm

--Connie Sieh
--Troy Dawson