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TITLE:
Gentoo update for mozilla/firefox

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15002

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15002/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of system
information, Exposure of sensitive information, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued updates for mozilla and firefox. These fix some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security
restrictions, gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information,
and compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA14820
SA14821
SA14938
SA14992

SOLUTION:
Mozilla Firefox users:
Update to "www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.3" or later.

Mozilla Firefox binary users:
Update to "www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.3" or later.

Mozilla Suite users:
Update to "www-client/mozilla-1.7.7" or later.

Mozilla Suite binary users:
Update to "www-client/mozilla-bin-1.7.7" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA14820:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14820/

SA14821:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14821/

SA14938:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14938/

SA14992:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14992/

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