--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-1499 2006-12-21 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Product : Fedora Core 6 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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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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Wed Dec 20 2006 Christopher Aillon caillon@redhat.com - 1.5.0.9-1 - Update to 1.5.0.9
--------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/
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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Christopher Aillon