Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for firefox. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, disclose sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, or potentially compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for firefox
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33285
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33285/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of sensitive
information, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 8
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/16769/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for firefox. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass
certain security restrictions, disclose sensitive information, conduct
cross-site scripting attacks, or potentially compromise a user's
system.
For more information:
SA33184
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update firefox").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2008-11551:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01112.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA33184:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33184/
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