Scientific Linux: 2008-09-23 Critical firefox Security Issue and Update

Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:46:59 -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:	2008-09-23
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-3837 CVE-2008-4058 CVE-2008-4060
 CVE-2008-4061 CVE-2008-4062 CVE-2008-4063
 CVE-2008-4064 CVE-2008-4065 CVE-2008-4067
 CVE-2008-4068

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-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062,
CVE-2008-4063, CVE-2008-4064)

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-2008-4067,
CVE-2008-4068)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox handles mouse click events. A web page
containing specially crafted JavaScript code could move the content window
while a mouse-button was pressed, causing any item under the pointer to be
dragged. This could, potentially, cause the user to perform an unsafe
drag-and-drop action. (CVE-2008-3837)

A flaw was found in Firefox that caused certain characters to be stripped
from JavaScript code. This flaw could allow malicious JavaScript to bypass
or evade script filters. (CVE-2008-4065)

For technical details regarding these flaws, please see the Mozilla
security advisories for Firefox 3.0.2. You can find a link to the Mozilla
advisories in the References section.

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-3.0.2-3.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
nspr-4.7.0.99.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
nspr-devel-4.7.0.99.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
nss-3.11.99.5-3.el4.i386.rpm
nss-devel-3.11.99.5-3.el4.i386.rpm
firefox-3.0.2-3.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
nspr-4.7.0.99.2-2.el4.i386.rpm
nspr-4.7.0.99.2-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
nspr-devel-4.7.0.99.2-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
nss-3.11.99.5-3.el4.i386.rpm
nss-3.11.99.5-3.el4.x86_64.rpm
nss-devel-3.11.99.5-3.el4.x86_64.rpm
firefox-3.0.2-3.el4.i386.rpm
firefox-3.0.2-3.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
devhelp-0.12-19.el5.src.rpm
firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.src.rpm
nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.src.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.src.rpm
yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
devhelp-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm
devhelp-devel-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm
firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
nss-tools-3.12.1.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm
yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
devhelp-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm
devhelp-0.12-19.el5.x86_64.rpm
devhelp-devel-0.12-19.el5.i386.rpm
devhelp-devel-0.12-19.el5.x86_64.rpm
firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.i386.rpm
firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.1.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.1.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
nss-tools-3.12.1.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm
yelp-2.16.0-21.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson