RHSA-2008:0879Critical

Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

Published
September 24, 2008
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (10)

CVE-2008-3837 →CVE-2008-4058 →CVE-2008-4060 →CVE-2008-4061 →CVE-2008-4062 →CVE-2008-4063 →CVE-2008-4064 →CVE-2008-4065 →CVE-2008-4067 →CVE-2008-4068 →

📋 Description

CVE-2008-3837 — mozilla: Forced mouse drag CVE-2008-4058 — Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution CVE-2008-4060 — Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution CVE-2008-4061 — Mozilla layout engine crash CVE-2008-4062 — Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption CVE-2008-4063 — Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption CVE-2008-4064 — Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption CVE-2008-4065 — Mozilla BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution CVE-2008-4067 — resource: traversal vulnerability CVE-2008-4068 — recource: bypass

🎯 Affected products189

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • devhelp-debuginfo-0:0.12-19.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-debuginfo-0:0.12-19.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • devhelp-debuginfo-0:0.12-19.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • devhelp-debuginfo-0:0.12-19.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-debuginfo-0:0.12-19.el5.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-debuginfo-0:0.12-19.el5.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-debuginfo-0:0.12-19.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-debuginfo-0:0.12-19.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-debuginfo-0:0.12-19.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • devhelp-debuginfo-0:0.12-19.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • devhelp-devel-0:0.12-19.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • devhelp-devel-0:0.12-19.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • +159 more not shown

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

🔗 References (13)