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Debian Lenny DSA-1873-1 Critical: Xulrunner Remote Spoofing Threat

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Calendar Grey August 26, 2009
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Hash: SHA1 Debian Security Advisory DSA-1873-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff Au
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian discovered that incorrect handling of invalid URLs could be used for spoofing the location bar and the SSL certificate status of a web page

Summary

Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian discovered that incorrect handling of invalid
URLs could be used for spoofing the location bar and the SSL certificate
status of a web page.

Xulrunner is no longer supported for the old stable distribution (etch).

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.0.13-0lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.0.13-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner packages.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel...

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Package: xulrunner

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