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Fedora Core 6: 2007-549 Urgent: Vulnerabilities In Firefox Explained

Updated firefox packages that fix several security bugs are now available Fedora Core 6. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Fedora Security Response Team. Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain malformed JavaScript code. A web page containing malicious JavaScript code could cause Firefox to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. . ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-549 2007-05-31 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 6 Name : yelp Version : 2.16.0 Release : 13.fc6 Summary : A system documentation reader from the Gnome project Description : Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed to help you browse all the documentation on your system in one central tool. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: Updated firefox packages that fix several security bugs are now available Fedora Core 6. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Fedora Security Response Team. Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain malformed JavaScript code. A web page containing malicious JavaScript code could cause Firefox to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2007-2867, CVE-2007-2868) A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled certain FTP PASV commands. A malicious FTP server could use this flaw to perform a rudimentary port-scan of machines behind a user's firewall. (CVE-2007-1562) Several denial of service flaws were found in the way Firefox handled certain form and cookie data. A malicious web site that is able to set arbitrary form and cookie data could prevent Firefox from functioningproperly. (CVE-2007-1362, CVE-2007-2869) A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled the addEventListener JavaScript method. A malicious web site could use this method to access or modify sensitive data from another web site. (CVE-2007-2870) A flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed certain web content. A malicious web page could generate content that would overlay user interface elements such as the hostname and security indicators, tricking users into thinking they are visiting a different site. (CVE-2007-2871) Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which contain Firefox version 1.5.0.12 that corrects these issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Wed May 30 2007 Christopher Aillon - 2.16.0-13 - Rebuild against newer gecko ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: f180b68f4c5970753df93402214121a63f429aeb SRPMS/yelp-2.16.0-13.fc6.src.rpm f180b68f4c5970753df93402214121a63f429aeb noarch/yelp-2.16.0-13.fc6.src.rpm 51a2f81c7e8e0ec06934f37bfc87d11640b77ead ppc/debug/yelp-debuginfo-2.16.0-13.fc6.ppc.rpm 1779f3eb0565252531055330a3954b22016b202d ppc/yelp-2.16.0-13.fc6.ppc.rpm 59d1165fe5704217a8965c7b863b9a3933d03c53 x86_64/debug/yelp-debuginfo-2.16.0-13.fc6.x86_64.rpm 8c54a35cdabaae9ba415c5a588daf94cc54f1050 x86_64/yelp-2.16.0-13.fc6.x86_64.rpm adfc02cecf94414ff1219855e878a753bcdef44f i386/debug/yelp-debuginfo-2.16.0-13.fc6.i386.rpm 690097b89973a5e2221c1911a66c9583c7e25b78 i386/yelp-2.16.0-13.fc6.i386.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at . ---------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailinglist This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./ . Urgent Linux Patch: Two vulnerabilities in Chrome put system integrity at risk via corrupted code. Prompt installation recommended.. Firefox Flaws, Fedora Core 6, Critical Update, Security Bugs. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

May 31, 2007 •Critical Fedora