--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-1492 2006-12-20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Product : Fedora Core 6 Name : firefox Version : 1.5.0.9 Release : 1.fc6 Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser. Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.
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Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.
Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processes certain malformed JavaScript code. A malicious web page could cause the execution of JavaScript code in such a way that could cause Firefox to crash or execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-6498, CVE-2006-6501, CVE-2006-6502, CVE-2006-6503, CVE-2006-6504)
Several flaws were found in the way Firefox renders web pages. A malicious web page could cause the browser to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-6497)
Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which contain Firefox version 1.5.0.9 that corrects these issues. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue Dec 19 2006 Christopher Aillon caillon@redhat.com 1.5.0.9-1 - Update to 1.5.0.9 * Tue Dec 5 2006 Christopher Aillon caillon@redhat.com 1.5.0.8-2 - Updated pango patches from behdad - Fix a leak in liveconnect - Fix a potential crash in CSS - Let Firefox handle gcc warnings; it weeds out frequent offenders.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/
e1fe5ef2c1156a06026b08a9023c05c0f43fd375 SRPMS/firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.src.rpm e1fe5ef2c1156a06026b08a9023c05c0f43fd375 noarch/firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.src.rpm 0e1d89ab8417844327bf5a503e44eabed4b2989d ppc/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.ppc.rpm 4d7214e03d8db9f236073bed272f584f70217c05 ppc/firefox-devel-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.ppc.rpm 212166e344557d93cd340a52f246d7f17e28ac93 ppc/firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.ppc.rpm ca2fb6249c633971b319363b5940702a4049fe71 x86_64/firefox-devel-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm da7254f374f59aba18d466f025c7145181ba6c9b x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm cfd3064e23d4c97c8bf0167c323b5163d2df97a0 x86_64/firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm 03cc7fcdd387fa443b7d2e2b2e199c5af1e98ffd i386/firefox-devel-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.i386.rpm 1b01573757dfddb260ce4a6f3e3e4e7e2e261f79 i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.i386.rpm 156f9deca5f95a0dbd6770a11ddab7ecb88b6c29 i386/firefox-1.5.0.9-1.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 http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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