Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update Issue date: 2009-12-16 CVE Names: CVE-2009-3979 CVE-2009-3981 CVE-2009-3983 CVE-2009-3984 CVE-2009-3985 CVE-2009-3986 Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-3979, CVE-2009-3981, CVE-2009-3986) A flaw was found in the Firefox NT Lan Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol implementation. If an attacker could trick a local user that has NTLM credentials into visiting a specially-crafted web page, they could send arbitrary requests, authenticated with the user's NTLM credentials, to other applications on the user's system. (CVE-2009-3983) A flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed the SSL location bar indicator. An attacker could create an unencrypted web page that appears to be encrypted, possibly tricking the user into believing they are visiting a secure page. (CVE-2009-3984) A flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed blank pages after a user navigates to an invalid address. If a user visits an attacker-controlled web page that results in a blank page, the attacker could inject content into that blank page, possibly tricking the user into believing they are viewing a legitimate page. (CVE-2009-3985) After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect. SL 4.x SRPMS: firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.src.rpm i386: firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.i386.rpm x86_64: firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.i386.rpm firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.x86_64.rpm SL 5.x SRPMS: firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.src.rpm xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.src.rpm i386: firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.i386.rpm xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.i386.rpm x86_64: firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.i386.rpm firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.i386.rpm xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson