Firefox Vulnerabilities

jd1008 jd1008 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 21:32:56 UTC 2015


 From the Fedora list, I see:

update to Firefox 40
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=676030



On 08/08/2015 02:46 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm currently running amd64 version 10.1-RELEASE-p16.  I update my
> ports tree through svn.  Yesterday, I updated the tree and subsequently
> upgraded Firefox:
>
> $ pkg info firefox
> firefox-40.0,1
> Name			: firefox
> Version			: 40.0,1
> Installed on	: Fri Aug  7 08:08:07 CDT 2015
> [snip]
>
> As everyone knows, there was a vulnerability announced a few days ago
> related to the pdf viewer in Firefox.[1]  This was fixed in the latest
> stable version, which is apparently 39.0.3.[2]  Version 40.*, which
> started life prior to the date of the vulnerability, remains in beta.[3]
>
> I can't seem to find where this vulnerability [1] was fixed in the beta
> version in the ports tree.[4]  I don't see any comments in
> /usr/ports/UPDATING nor in /usr/ports/CHANGES related to this issue.
>
> Can someone comment on the status of [1] in the current "stable"
> Freebsd version of Firefox, 40.0,1?  Thanks.
>
>
> [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-78/
> [2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/
> [3] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/40.0beta/releasenotes/
> [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?j_top=OR&f1=target_milestone&\
> o3=equals&v3=Firefox%2040&o1=equals&resolution=FIXED&o2=anyexact&query_\
> format=advanced&f3=target_milestone&f2=cf_status_firefox40&bug_status=\
> RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&v1=mozilla40&v2=fixed%\
> 2Cverified&limit=0
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