Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for firefox. This fixes a weakness, some security issues, and some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, conduct spoofing attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks, and potentially compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for firefox and xulrunner
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34849
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34849/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for firefox. This fixes a weakness, some
security issues, and some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by
malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information,
conduct spoofing attacks, bypass certain security restrictions,
conduct cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks,
and potentially compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA34096
SA34758
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update firefox
xulrunner").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2009-3893:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00724.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00726.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA34096:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34096/
SA34758:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34758/
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