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Gentoo update for mozilla/mozilla-firefox
Secunia Advisory: SA16844
Release Date: 2005-09-19
Last Update: 2005-10-03
Popularity: 5,598 views

Critical:
Extremely critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Spoofing
Manipulation of data
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2701
CVE-2005-2702
CVE-2005-2703
CVE-2005-2704
CVE-2005-2705
CVE-2005-2706
CVE-2005-2707
CVE-2005-2968


Description:
Gentoo has issued updates for mozilla and mozilla-firefox. These fix some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks, manipulate certain data, bypass certain security restrictions, and compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA16846
SA16869
SA16911
SA16917

Solution:
Mozilla Firefox users:
Update to "www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2" or later.

Mozilla Suite users:
Update to "www-client/mozilla-1.7.12-r2" or later.

Mozilla Firefox binary users:
Update to "www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7" or later.

Mozilla Suite binary users:
Update to "www-client/mozilla-bin-1.7.12" or later.

Gecko library users:
Update to "net-libs/gecko-sdk-1.7.12" or later.

Changelog:
2005-10-03: Vendor issues updated packages for additional vulnerabilities. Updated advisory.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-11.xml

Other References:
SA16846:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16846/

SA16869:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16869/

SA16911:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16911/

SA16917:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16917/


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