RHSA-2008:1036Critical

Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

Published
December 17, 2008
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (11)

CVE-2008-5500 →CVE-2008-5501 →CVE-2008-5502 →CVE-2008-5505 →CVE-2008-5506 →CVE-2008-5507 →CVE-2008-5508 →CVE-2008-5510 →CVE-2008-5511 →CVE-2008-5512 →CVE-2008-5513 →

📋 Description

CVE-2008-5500 — Layout engine crashes - Firefox 2 and 3 CVE-2008-5501 — Layout engine crash - Firefox 3 only CVE-2008-5502 — JavaScript engine crash - Firefox 3 only CVE-2008-5505 — Firefox 3 User tracking via XUL persist attribute CVE-2008-5506 — Firefox XMLHttpRequest 302 response disclosure CVE-2008-5507 — Firefox Cross-domain data theft via script redirect error message CVE-2008-5508 — Firefox errors parsing URLs with control characters CVE-2008-5510 — Firefox null characters ignored by CSS parser CVE-2008-5511 — Firefox XSS via XBL bindings to unloaded document CVE-2008-5512 — Firefox JavaScript privilege escalation CVE-2008-5513 — Firefox XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore

🎯 Affected products200

  • 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
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el5_2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el5_2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • firefox-0:3.0.5-1.el5_2.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • +170 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 (14)