Re: Firefox critical updates?

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 14:35 +1200, Greg Trounson wrote:

Does anyone here know when Firefox 1.5.0.5 is due to hit yum repositories?

There's several major security updates[*] in this release, and with published exploits
widely available it's only a matter of time before we start seeing compromised FC5 boxes.

Greg

* http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox1.5.0.5

I'm curious as to whether this would lead to compromised Linux boxes. I
can't read the details of those exploits, I can't see if they lead to
what are really Windows exploits done through a web browser, or
something that's cross-platform.

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