CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
93.2%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:1036
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web
page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2008-5500, CVE-2008-5501, CVE-2008-5502, CVE-2008-5511, CVE-2008-5512,
CVE-2008-5513)
Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A
website containing specially-crafted content could potentially trick a
Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-5506,
CVE-2008-5507)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox stored attributes in XML User Interface
Language (XUL) elements. A web site could use this flaw to track users
across browser sessions, even if users did not allow the site to store
cookies in the victim’s browser. (CVE-2008-5505)
A flaw was found in the way malformed URLs were processed by Firefox.
This flaw could prevent various URL sanitization mechanisms from properly
parsing a malicious URL. (CVE-2008-5508)
A flaw was found in Firefox’s CSS parser. A malicious web page could inject
NULL characters into a CSS input string, possibly bypassing an
application’s script sanitization routines. (CVE-2008-5510)
For technical details regarding these flaws, please see the Mozilla
security advisories for Firefox 3.0.5. You can find a link to the Mozilla
advisories in the References section.
Note: after the errata packages are installed, Firefox must be restarted
for the update to take effect.
All firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches that correct these issues.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/077665.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/077666.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/077670.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/090421.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/090422.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/090431.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/090432.html
Affected packages:
firefox
nspr
nspr-devel
nss
nss-devel
nss-pkcs11-devel
nss-tools
seamonkey
seamonkey-chat
seamonkey-devel
seamonkey-dom-inspector
seamonkey-js-debugger
seamonkey-mail
xulrunner
xulrunner-devel
xulrunner-devel-unstable
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:1036
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:1037
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 5 | i386 | firefox | < 3.0.5-1.el5.centos | firefox-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | nspr | < 4.7.3-2.el5 | nspr-4.7.3-2.el5.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | nspr-devel | < 4.7.3-2.el5 | nspr-devel-4.7.3-2.el5.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | nss | < 3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos | nss-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | nss-devel | < 3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos | nss-devel-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | nss-pkcs11-devel | < 3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos | nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | nss-tools | < 3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos | nss-tools-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | xulrunner | < 1.9.0.5-1.el5 | xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.el5.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | xulrunner-devel | < 1.9.0.5-1.el5 | xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.5-1.el5.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | xulrunner-devel-unstable | < 1.9.0.5-1.el5 | xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.5-1.el5.i386.rpm |