Scientific Linux: Critical Security Advisory for Firefox Update

Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:39:01 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: firefox on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Critical: firefox security update
Issue date:	2009-03-04
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-0040 CVE-2009-0771 CVE-2009-0772
 CVE-2009-0773 CVE-2009-0774 CVE-2009-0775
 CVE-2009-0776 CVE-2009-0777

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-2009-0040, CVE-2009-0771, CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0773,
CVE-2009-0774,CVE-2009-0775)

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-2009-0776, CVE-2009-0777)

After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes
to take effect.

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-3.0.7-1.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
firefox-3.0.7-1.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
firefox-3.0.7-1.el4.i386.rpm
firefox-3.0.7-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-3.0.7-1.el5.src.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.7-1.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
firefox-3.0.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
firefox-3.0.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
firefox-3.0.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson