--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-871 2005-09-10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : firefox Version : 1.0.6 Release : 1.2.fc4 Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser. Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: An updated firefox package that fixes as security bug is now available for Fedora Core 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Fedora Security Response Team. Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. A bug was found in the way Firefox processes certain international domain names. An attacker could create a specially crafted HTML file, which when viewed by the victim would cause Firefox to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-2871 to this issue. Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this updated package that contains a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fri Sep 9 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon@xxxxxxxxxx> 0:1.0.6-1.2.fc4 - Fix for CAN-2005-2871 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/ a6ec66de684e73394a2ebb56ff6e2e9e SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.src.rpm 637e26b2300c31bb389cf2b64adbc69a ppc/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.ppc.rpm 5adf6c32862c8f7fc8f4d4f9d60e24d3 ppc/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.ppc.rpm 910c10516d4b87897305e65de5454f07 x86_64/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.x86_64.rpm 2531a6ba8fb7ee37c76ba15a48c5c604 x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.x86_64.rpm 565abda143b792221a4c28ad1f010812 i386/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.i386.rpm e2655d8e82e9652b5db877c77856acc5 i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-announce-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
