Scientific Linux: Important Firefox Security Update, Certificate Issue

Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:29:13 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: firefox on SL4.x, SL5.x,
 SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: firefox security update
Issue Date: 2011-08-31

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the
XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.

It was found that a Certificate Authority (CA) issued a fraudulent HTTPS
certificate. This update renders any HTTPS certificates signed by that
CA as untrusted, except for a select few. The now untrusted certificates
that were issued before July 1, 2011 can be manually re-enabled and used
again at your own risk in Firefox; however, affected certificates issued
after this date cannot be re-enabled or used.

All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch. After installing the update, Firefox must be
restarted for the changes to take effect.

SL4:
 i386
 firefox-3.6.20-3.el4.i386.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-3.6.20-3.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 firefox-debuginfo-3.6.20-3.el4.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-3.6.20-3.el4.x86_64.rpm
SL5:
 i386
 xulrunner-1.9.2.20-3.el5_7.i386.rpm
 xulrunner-debuginfo-1.9.2.20-3.el5_7.i386.rpm
 xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.20-3.el5_7.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 xulrunner-debuginfo-1.9.2.20-3.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
 xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.20-3.el5_7.i386.rpm
 xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.20-3.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
 xulrunner-debuginfo-1.9.2.20-3.el5_7.i386.rpm
 xulrunner-1.9.2.20-3.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
 xulrunner-1.9.2.20-3.el5_7.i386.rpm
SL6:
 i386
 xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.20-3.el6_1.i686.rpm
 xulrunner-1.9.2.20-3.el6_1.i686.rpm
 xulrunner-debuginfo-1.9.2.20-3.el6_1.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 xulrunner-1.9.2.20-3.el6_1.i686.rpm
 xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.20-3.el6_1.i686.rpm
 xulrunner-debuginfo-1.9.2.20-3.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
 xulrunner-debuginfo-1.9.2.20-3.el6_1.i686.rpm
 xulrunner-1.9.2.20-3.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
 xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.20-3.el6_1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team