On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 13:09 +0930, Tim wrote: > 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. Some of these look quite serious. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200357 Paul.