Issued:
2012-11-06
Updated:
2012-11-06

RHBA-2012:1429 - firefox bug fix update


Synopsis

firefox bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated firefox packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The firefox packages provides an open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • The "out-of-process plug-ins" feature was previously disabled for wrapped plug-ins by default. This could cause Firefox to terminate unexpectedly when accessing a page that contained a flash object and the flash plug-in and the nswrapperplugin plug-in viewer were installed. To resolve this problem, the "out-of-process plug-ins" feature has been enabled for the wrapped plug-ins. Firefox no longer crashes in this scenario. (BZ#871568)

All users of firefox are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • firefox-10.0.10-2.el5_8.s390.rpm
  • firefox-10.0.10-2.el5_8.i386.rpm
  • firefox-debuginfo-10.0.10-2.el5_8.i386.rpm
  • firefox-debuginfo-10.0.10-2.el5_8.s390x.rpm
  • firefox-10.0.10-2.el5_8.ppc.rpm
  • firefox-debuginfo-10.0.10-2.el5_8.ia64.rpm
  • firefox-debuginfo-10.0.10-2.el5_8.s390.rpm
  • firefox-10.0.10-2.el5_8.src.rpm
  • firefox-debuginfo-10.0.10-2.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
  • firefox-10.0.10-2.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
  • firefox-10.0.10-2.el5_8.s390x.rpm
  • firefox-debuginfo-10.0.10-2.el5_8.ppc.rpm
  • firefox-10.0.10-2.el5_8.ia64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information