Issued:
2009-04-21
Updated:
2009-04-21

RHSA-2009:0436 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Critical: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Description

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL
Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.

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-2009-1302, CVE-2009-1303, CVE-2009-1304, CVE-2009-1305)

Several flaws were found in the way malformed web content was processed. A
web page containing malicious content could execute arbitrary JavaScript in
the context of the site, possibly presenting misleading data to a user, or
stealing sensitive information such as login credentials. (CVE-2009-0652,
CVE-2009-1306, CVE-2009-1307, CVE-2009-1308, CVE-2009-1309, CVE-2009-1310,
CVE-2009-1312)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox saved certain web pages to a local
file. If a user saved the inner frame of a web page containing POST data,
the POST data could be revealed to the inner frame, possibly surrendering
sensitive information such as login credentials. (CVE-2009-1311)

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security
advisories for Firefox 3.0.9. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories
in the References section of this errata.

All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
Firefox version 3.0.9, which corrects these issues. After installing the
update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.3 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.3 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.7 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.7 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.3 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.7 s390
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 4.7 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.3 ppc

Fixes

  • BZ - 486704 - CVE-2009-0652 firefox: does not properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names (spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks)
  • BZ - 496252 - CVE-2009-1302 Firefox 3 Layout engine crashes
  • BZ - 496253 - CVE-2009-1303 Firefox 2 and 3 Layout engine crash
  • BZ - 496255 - CVE-2009-1304 Firefox 3 JavaScript engine crashes
  • BZ - 496256 - CVE-2009-1305 Firefox 2 and 3 JavaScript engine crash
  • BZ - 496262 - CVE-2009-1306 Firefox jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI
  • BZ - 496263 - CVE-2009-1307 Firefox Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: protocol
  • BZ - 496266 - CVE-2009-1308 Firefox XSS hazard using third-party stylesheets and XBL bindings
  • BZ - 496267 - CVE-2009-1309 Firefox Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString
  • BZ - 496270 - CVE-2009-1310 Firefox Malicious search plugins can inject code into arbitrary sites
  • BZ - 496271 - CVE-2009-1311 Firefox POST data sent to wrong site when saving web page with embedded frame
  • BZ - 496274 - CVE-2009-1312 Firefox allows Refresh header to redirect to javascript: URIs

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4

SRPM
s390
firefox-3.0.9-1.el4.s390.rpm SHA-256: 6af6e19e81856cb6da47ba21772c6f51d72bdaa2c11376685d2e55c0d16ec60f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.7

SRPM
s390
firefox-3.0.9-1.el4.s390.rpm SHA-256: 6af6e19e81856cb6da47ba21772c6f51d72bdaa2c11376685d2e55c0d16ec60f

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