Scientific Linux: Firefox Critical Security Update CVE-2008-5500

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:38:51 -0600
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:	2008-12-16
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-5500 CVE-2008-5501 CVE-2008-5502
 CVE-2008-5505 CVE-2008-5506 CVE-2008-5507
 CVE-2008-5508 CVE-2008-5510 CVE-2008-5511
 CVE-2008-5512 CVE-2008-5513

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-2008-5500, CVE-2008-5501, CVE-2008-5502, CVE-2008-5511, CVE-2008-5512,
CVE-2008-5513)

Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A
website containing specially-crafted content could potentially trick a
Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-5506,
CVE-2008-5507)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox stored attributes in XML User Interface
Language (XUL) elements. A web site could use this flaw to track usersacross browser sessions, even if users did not allow the site to store
cookies in the victim's browser. (CVE-2008-5505)

A flaw was found in the way malformed URLs were processed by Firefox.
This flaw could prevent various URL sanitization mechanisms from properly
parsing a malicious URL. (CVE-2008-5508)

A flaw was found in Firefox's CSS parser. A malicious web page could inject
NULL characters into a CSS input string, possibly bypassing an
application's script sanitization routines. (CVE-2008-5510)

For technical details regarding these flaws, please see the Mozilla
security advisories for Firefox 3.0.5. You can find a link to the Mozilla
advisories in the References section.

Note: after the errata packages are installed, Firefox must be restarted
for the update to take effect.

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-3.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm
nspr-4.7.3-1.el4.src.rpm
nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
firefox-3.0.5-1.el4.i386.rpm
nspr-4.7.3-1.el4.i386.rpm
nspr-devel-4.7.3-1.el4.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.i386.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.2.0-1.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
firefox-3.0.5-1.el4.i386.rpm
firefox-3.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
nspr-4.7.3-1.el4.i386.rpm
nspr-4.7.3-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
nspr-devel-4.7.3-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.2.0-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-3.0.5-1.el5_2.src.rpm
nspr-4.7.3-2.el5.src.rpm
nss-3.12.2.0-2.el5.src.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2.src.rpm
 i386:
firefox-3.0.5-1.el5_2.i386.rpm
nspr-4.7.3-2.el5.i386.rpm
nspr-devel-4.7.3-2.el5.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.2.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.2.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.2.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
nss-tools-3.12.2.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
firefox-3.0.5-1.el5_2.i386.rpm
firefox-3.0.5-1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
nspr-4.7.3-2.el5.i386.rpm
nspr-4.7.3-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nspr-devel-4.7.3-2.el5.i386.rpm
nspr-devel-4.7.3-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nss-3.12.2.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.2.0-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.2.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.2.0-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.2.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.2.0-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nss-tools-3.12.2.0-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2.i386.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson