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Debian: DSA 1055-1 Critical: Firefox Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2006
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Improvements in Debian's Mozilla Firefox tackle a significant remote code execution vulnerability. An upgrade is advised to ensure security.
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your Mozilla Firefox packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1001 b182197490af4a8c07faa21ec3178291
Size/MD5 checksum: 382272 eae0832fc7a4d408c33ff598859b95c3
Size/MD5 checksum: 40212297 8e4ba81ad02c7986446d4e54e978409d

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 11170108 35d0f530d00b9760f9b37b6d59a7b98c
Size/MD5 checksum: 168254...

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