[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc5

[Christopher Aillon]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-1499
2006-12-22
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : firefox
Version     : 1.5.0.9
Release     : 1.fc5
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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Update Information:

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 this package,
which contains Firefox version 1.5.0.9 and corrects these
issues. 
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* Wed Dec 20 2006 Christopher Aillon  - 1.5.0.9-1
- Update to 1.5.0.9
* Tue Nov  7 2006 Christopher Aillon  - 1.5.0.8-1
- Update to 1.5.0.8
- Fix up a few items in the download manager
- Use the bullet character for password fields.
- Add pango printing patch from Behdad.
* Wed Sep 13 2006 Christopher Aillon  - 1.5.0.7-1
- Update to 1.5.0.7
- Bring in pango patches from rawhide to fix MathML and cursor positioning
* Tue Aug  8 2006 Jesse Keating  - 1.5.0.6-2
- Use dist tag
- rebuild
* Thu Aug  3 2006 Kai Engert  - 1.5.0.6-1.1.fc5
- Update to 1.5.0.6
* Thu Jul 27 2006 Christopher Aillon  - 1.5.0.5-1.1.fc5
- Update to 1.5.0.5
* Wed Jun 14 2006 Kai Engert  - 1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5
- Force "gmake -j1" on ppc ppc64 s390 s390x
* Mon Jun 12 2006 Kai Engert  - 1.5.0.4-1.1.fc5
- Firefox 1.5.0.4

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/

7adb054fa9d328c994da34b00c1e39ab3861ec3d  SRPMS/firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc5.src.rpm
7adb054fa9d328c994da34b00c1e39ab3861ec3d  noarch/firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc5.src.rpm
6ef57784517cccd2b6107a72ac25ddaf2ddedd2c  ppc/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.9-1.fc5.ppc.rpm
cd587d1449885a232e7255d7147baf2497817cda  ppc/firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc5.ppc.rpm
5b7346c702bc999c0a4300ad6dc30dd04d5e212c  x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.9-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
9b82c1c8df42ce68bb9301fa422262a8ed893985  x86_64/firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
a274f39e5fadc562eca0ad747c670bba6bc20c9d  i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.9-1.fc5.i386.rpm
f4deed8b6f417d2003216070088362ff666b5206  i386/firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc5.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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