Debian DSA-1558-1 Critical: Xulrunner Code Execution Risk
debian
April 24, 2008
It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine of xulrunner,
the Gecko engine library, could potentially lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.8.1.14-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner 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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 146777 4291049740d9592c439b612511a8b7a3
Size/MD5 checksum: 45764828 f7e8262a29bf69cce700927bef7300af
Size/MD5 checksum: 1346 0e977f6aba9a0dd5767a60a35093fadf
Architecture independent pac...
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