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Gentoo update for Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox
Secunia Advisory: SA15376
Release Date: 2005-05-16
Popularity: 5,651 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-1476
CVE-2005-1477


Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA15292

Solution:
Update to one of the following or later:
www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.4
www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.4
www-client/mozilla-1.7.8
www-client/mozilla-bin-1.7.8

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-11.xml

Other References:
SA15292:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15292


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