Date:         Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:10:29 -0500
Reply-To:     Troy Dawson 
Sender:       Security Errata for Scientific Linux
              
From:         Troy Dawson 
Subject:      Security ERRATA for firefox on SL4.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: "scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov"
          

Synopsis:	Critical: firefox security update
Issue date:	2008-07-02
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

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)


SL 4.x

    SRPMS:
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.19.el4.src.rpm
    i386:
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.19.el4.i386.rpm
    x86_64:
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.19.el4.i386.rpm
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.19.el4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson