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Alex Kruchkoff <[log in to unmask]>
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Alex Kruchkoff <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:23:30 +1000
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There is a security vulnerability has been discovered in FF3, FF2:

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/06/18/vulnerability-in-mozilla-firefox-30

Just wonder if firefox-1.5.0.12-15.el5_1.i386 is safe?

Cheers
Alex

Troy Dawson wrote, On 06/20/2008 03:54 AM:
> Jon Peatfield wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Connie Sieh wrote:
>>
>>> Scientific Linux "SL 5.2" Release Candidate 2 for i386        June 
>>> 17, 2008
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Just to be unpopular I'm hoping that the full release *won't* happen 
>> 'til
>> after TUV release the firefox-3 (proper version)...
>>
>> I just checked and the fedora development (was rawhide) just (well on 
>> the
>> 18th) got a srpm of 3.0 (final) so I suspect that QA will mean that 
>> the EL
>> release won't happen for a while (not that the fedora package is
>> maintained by the same people but...)
>>
>
> Well ... that question does make you unpopular :)
> Just kidding.
>
> Firefox will not affect the release schedule, although, yes, it would 
> be nice if the non-beta was in there.
> In talking with RedHat (I'm at their summit, so I can literally talk 
> with them) they said that there really hasn't been many changes to 
> firefox since the beta they released, but that they are working on 
> getting it out soon.
>
> Troy

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