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Phil Wyett <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 8 Aug 2015 09:18:19 +0100
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On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 03:31 +0000, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> Synopsis:          Important: firefox security update
> Advisory ID:       SLSA-2015:1581-1
> Issue Date:        2015-08-07
> CVE Numbers:       CVE-2015-4495
> --
> 
> A flaw was discovered in Mozilla Firefox that could be used to violate the
> same-origin policy and inject web script into a non-privileged part of the
> built-in PDF file viewer (PDF.js). An attacker could create a malicious
> web page that, when viewed by a victim, could steal arbitrary files
> (including private SSH keys, the /etc/passwd file, and other potentially
> sensitive files) from the system running Firefox. (CVE-2015-4495)
> 
> After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes
> to take effect.
> --
> 
> SL5
>   x86_64
>     firefox-38.1.1-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
>     firefox-38.1.1-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
>     firefox-debuginfo-38.1.1-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
>     firefox-debuginfo-38.1.1-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
>   i386
>     firefox-38.1.1-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
>     firefox-debuginfo-38.1.1-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
> SL6
>   x86_64
>     firefox-38.1.1-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
>     firefox-debuginfo-38.1.1-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
>     firefox-38.1.1-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
>     firefox-debuginfo-38.1.1-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
>   i386
>     firefox-38.1.1-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
>     firefox-debuginfo-38.1.1-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
> SL7
>   x86_64
>     firefox-38.1.1-1.el7_1.x86_64.rpm
>     firefox-debuginfo-38.1.1-1.el7_1.x86_64.rpm
>     firefox-38.1.1-1.el7_1.i686.rpm
>     firefox-debuginfo-38.1.1-1.el7_1.i686.rpm
> 
> - Scientific Linux Development Team

Hi,

Seems the 6x repo has not been updated for inclusion of this update as
none showing on a clean 'yum update' though the rpm is there.

Regards

Phil


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