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Debian: DSA-1820-1 Critical: Xulrunner Remote Exploitation Issues

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Calendar Grey June 19, 2009
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This notice details numerous remote weaknesses in Geckoview, affecting Firefox, along with update guidance provided.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications, such as the Iceweasel web browser

Summary

CVE-2009-1392

Several issues in the browser engine have been discovered, which can
result in the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2009-24)

CVE-2009-1832

It is possible to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving "double
frame construction." (MFSA 2009-24)

CVE-2009-1833

Jesse Ruderman and Adam Hauner discovered a problem in the JavaScript
engine, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
(MFSA 2009-24)

CVE-2009-1834

Pavel Cvrcek discovered a potential issue leading to a spoofing attack
on the location bar related to certain invalid unicode characters.
(MFSA 2009-25)

CVE-2009-1835

Gregory Fleischer discovered that it is possible to read arbitrary
cookies via a crafted HTML document. (MFSA 2009-26)

CVE-2009-1836

Shuo Chen, Ziqing Mao, Yi-Min Wang and Ming Zhang reported a potential
man-in-the-middle attack...

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Package: xulrunner
CVE IDs: CVE-2009-1392 CVE-2009-1832 CVE-2009-1833 CVE-2009-1834 CVE-2009-1835

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