Re: Firefox critical updates?

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 13:09 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 14:35 +1200, Greg Trounson wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone here know when Firefox 1.5.0.5 is due to hit yum repositories?
> > 
> > There's several major security updates[*] in this release, and with published exploits 
> > widely available it's only a matter of time before we start seeing compromised FC5 boxes.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > * http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox1.5.0.5
> 
> I'm curious as to whether this would lead to compromised Linux boxes.  I
> can't read the details of those exploits, I can't see if they lead to
> what are really Windows exploits done through a web browser, or
> something that's cross-platform.

Some of these look quite serious.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200357

Paul.