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Debian: DSA-2124-2 Critical Xulrunner Memory Issues and Remote Attacks

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Calendar Grey November 1, 2010
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, the component that provides the core functionality of Iceweasel, Debian's variant of Mozilla's browser technology

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, the
component that provides the core functionality of Iceweasel, Debian's
variant of Mozilla's browser technology.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

CVE-2010-3765
Xulrunner allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
via vectors related to nsCSSFrameConstructor::ContentAppended,
the appendChild method, incorrect index tracking, and the
creation of multiple frames, which triggers memory corruption.

CVE-2010-3174
CVE-2010-3176
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in
Xulrunner allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute
arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

CVE-2010-3177
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the
Gopher parser in Xulrunner allow remote attackers to inject
arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted name of a (1) file
or (2) directory on a Gopher server.

CVE-2010...

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Package: xulrunner

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