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Gentoo update for mozilla-firefox and mozilla-firefox-bin
Secunia Advisory: SA24393
Release Date: 2007-03-05
Popularity: 8,106 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Spoofing
Exposure of sensitive information
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-6077
CVE-2007-0775
CVE-2007-0776
CVE-2007-0777
CVE-2007-0778
CVE-2007-0779
CVE-2007-0780
CVE-2007-0800
CVE-2007-0801
CVE-2007-0981
CVE-2007-0995


Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for mozilla-firefox and mozilla-firefox-bin. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting and spoofing attacks, gain knowledge of sensitive information, and potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA24205

Solution:
All Mozilla Firefox 1.5 users should update to:
"www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.10" or later.

All Mozilla Firefox 1.5 binary users should update to:
"www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.10" or later.

All Mozilla Firefox 2 users should update to:
"www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.2" or later.

All Mozilla Firefox 2 binary users should update to:
"www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.2" or later.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-04.xml

Other References:
SA24205:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24205/


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