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Critical Security Patch for Firefox in Scientific Linux: Addressing CVE-2009-0652

Calendar Apr 23, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Critical: firefox security update 
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:36:37 -0500
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:	2009-04-21
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-0652 CVE-2009-1302 CVE-2009-1303
 CVE-2009-1304 CVE-2009-1305 CVE-2009-1306
 CVE-2009-1307 CVE-2009-1308 CVE-2009-1309
 CVE-2009-1310 CVE-2009-1311 CVE-2009-1312

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-2009-1302, CVE-2009-1303, CVE-2009-1304, CVE-2009-1305)

Several flaws were found in the way malformed web content was processed.
A web page containing malicious content could execute arbitrary
JavaScript in the context of the site, possibly presenting misleading
data to a user, or stealing sensitive information such as login
credentials. (CVE-2009-0652, CVE-2009-1306, CVE-2009-1307,
CVE-2009-1308, CVE-2009-1309, CVE-2009-1310, CVE-2009-1312)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox saved certain web pages to a local
file. If a user saved the inner frame of a web page containing POST
data, the POST data could be revealed to the inner frame, possibly
surrendering sensitive information such as login credentials.
(CVE-2009-1311)

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

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-3.0.9-1.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
firefox-3.0.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
firefox-3.0.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
firefox-3.0.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
firefox-3.0.9-1.el5.src.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.9-1.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
firefox-3.0.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
firefox-3.0.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
firefox-3.0.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-1.9.0.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson