Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for mozilla. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of sensitive information and perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges and by malicious people to conduct spoofing and cross-site scripting attacks, disclose sensitive and system information, bypass certain security restrictions, trick users into downloading malicious files and compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for mozilla
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15180
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15180/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Spoofing, Manipulation of data, Exposure of
system information, Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege
escalation, System access, Security Bypass
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium
http://secunia.com/product/1326/
RedHat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 for Itanium
http://secunia.com/product/1327/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
http://secunia.com/product/2536/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
http://secunia.com/product/1044/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
http://secunia.com/product/2535/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
http://secunia.com/product/1306/
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
http://secunia.com/product/2534/
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
http://secunia.com/product/48/
DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for mozilla. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain knowledge of sensitive information and perform certain actions
on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges and by malicious
people to conduct spoofing and cross-site scripting attacks, disclose
sensitive and system information, bypass certain security
restrictions, trick users into downloading malicious files and
compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA12956
SA13129
SA13258
SA13599
SA14017
SA14160
SA14163
SA14407
SA14684
SA14821
SA14992
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com/
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA12956:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12956/
SA13129:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13129/
SA13258:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13258/
SA13599:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13599/
SA14017:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14017/
SA14160:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14160/
SA14163:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14163/
SA14407:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14407/
SA14684:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14684/
SA14821:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14821/
SA14992:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14992/
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