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Debian 3.1 DSA 1044-1 Critical: Firefox Remote Threat Advisory

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Calendar Grey April 26, 2006
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Numerous vulnerabilities patched in Mozilla Firefox; it is advisable for Debian users to update for enhanced protection.
Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox.

Summary


Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla
Firefox. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies
the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2005-4134

Web pages with extremely long titles cause subsequent launches of
the browser to appear to "hang" for up to a few minutes, or even
crash if the computer has insufficient memory. [MFSA-2006-03]

CVE-2006-0292

The Javascript interpreter does not properly dereference objects,
which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or
execute arbitrary code. [MFSA-2006-01]

CVE-2006-0293

The function allocation code allows attackers to cause a denial of
service and possibly execute arbitrary code. [MFSA-2006-01]

CVE-2006-0296

XULDocument.persist() did not validate the attribute name,
allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary XML and JavaScript code
into localstore.rdf that would be read and acted upon during
startup. [MFSA-2006-05]

CVE-2006-0748

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