Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.
Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain malformed web
content. A webpage containing malicious content could cause Firefox to
crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2008-0412, CVE-2008-0413, CVE-2008-0415, CVE-2008-0419)
Several flaws were found in the way Firefox displayed malformed web
content. A webpage containing specially-crafted content could trick a user
into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-0591, CVE-2008-0593)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox stored password data. If a user saves
login information for a malicious website, it could be possible to corrupt
the password database, preventing the user from properly accessing saved
password data. (CVE-2008-0417)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox handles certain chrome URLs. If a user
has certain extensions installed, it could allow a malicious website to
steal sensitive session data. Note: this flaw does not affect a default
installation of Firefox. (CVE-2008-0418)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox saves certain text files. If a
website offers a file of type “plain/text”, rather than “text/plain”,
Firefox will not show future “text/plain” content to the user in the
browser, forcing them to save those files locally to view the content.
(CVE-2008-0592)
Users of firefox are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to resolve these issues.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 5 | s390 | firefox | < 1.5.0.12-9.el5 | firefox-1.5.0.12-9.el5.s390.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | i386 | firefox | < 1.5.0.12-9.el5 | firefox-1.5.0.12-9.el5.i386.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ppc | firefox | < 1.5.0.12-9.el5 | firefox-1.5.0.12-9.el5.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | s390x | firefox-devel | < 1.5.0.12-9.el5 | firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-9.el5.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | x86_64 | firefox-devel | < 1.5.0.12-9.el5 | firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-9.el5.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | s390 | firefox | < 1.5.0.12-0.10.el4 | firefox-1.5.0.12-0.10.el4.s390.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ia64 | firefox-devel | < 1.5.0.12-9.el5 | firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-9.el5.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | src | firefox | < 1.5.0.12-0.10.el4 | firefox-1.5.0.12-0.10.el4.src.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | s390 | firefox-devel | < 1.5.0.12-9.el5 | firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-9.el5.s390.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | src | firefox | < 1.5.0.12-9.el5 | firefox-1.5.0.12-9.el5.src.rpm |