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Re: Security ERRATA Critical: firefox on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:46:54 -0500
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Hi Dan,
Your symptoms sound like you haven't restarted firefox.
Try completely restarting firefox.  You might have some process lurking 
in the background if you've already tried restarting firefox.  Do a
   ps ax | grep firefox
and kill all it's processes

Troy

Daniel Widyono wrote:
> Troy,
> 
> I don't know if anybody else has experienced this.  Upon the upgrade to these
> packages, my firefox install no longer opens windows.  I can't open the
> preferences window either for instance.  A small minimally-sized window
> appears but its contents are blank.  I tried moving aside my personal profile
> to no avail.
> 
> What's the easiest method of downgrading packages together from the SL repo?
> 
> Dan W.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote:
>> Synopsis:	Critical: firefox security update
>> Issue date:	2009-04-27
>> CVE Names:	CVE-2009-1313
>>
>> A flaw was 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-2009-1313)
>>
>> After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the change to 
>> take effect.
>>
>> SL 4.x
>>
>>      SRPMS:
>> firefox-3.0.10-1.el4.src.rpm
>>      i386:
>> firefox-3.0.10-1.el4.i386.rpm
>>      x86_64:
>> firefox-3.0.10-1.el4.i386.rpm
>> firefox-3.0.10-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> SL 5.x
>>
>>      SRPMS:
>> firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.src.rpm
>> xulrunner-1.9.0.10-1.el5.src.rpm
>>      i386:
>> firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm
>> xulrunner-1.9.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm
>> xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm
>> xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm
>>      x86_64:
>> firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm
>> firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
>> xulrunner-1.9.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm
>> xulrunner-1.9.0.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
>> xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm
>> xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
>> xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> -Connie Sieh
>> -Troy Dawson
>>


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