--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-872 2005-09-10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : firefox Version : 1.0.6 Release : 1.2.fc3 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 3 and 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.fc3 - Fix for CAN-2005-2871 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/ 6eaa113f4341531a82c3acdb38a8ce63 SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc3.src.rpm b3d5af88b33c7e160c897bc88f3d405e x86_64/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc3.x86_64.rpm f2a098f972ca7f274d779c65bcc2bfe9 x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.6-1.2.fc3.x86_64.rpm 597068a88783d1b0687cd4789a215267 i386/firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc3.i386.rpm 820745933f8f81270e4981657432454b i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.6-1.2.fc3.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
