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Debian 4.0 DSA-1669-1 Moderate: Xulrunner Buffer Overflow Exploits

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Calendar Grey November 23, 2008
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Enhance your Debian xulrunner installations to address several remote security flaws that could potentially permit unauthorized code execution.
Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary


Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer
overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-3835

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that the same-origin check in
nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could by bypassed.

CVE-2008-3836

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that several vulnerabilities in
feedWriter could lead to Chrome privilege escalation.

CVE-2008-3837

Paul Nickerson discovered that an attacker could move windows
during a mouse click, resulting in unwanted action triggered by
drag-and-drop.

CVE-2008-4058

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a vulnerability which can result in
Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers.

CVE-2008-4059

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a vulnerability which can result in
Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers.

CVE-2008-4060

Olli Pettay and "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a Chrome privilege
escalation vulnerability in XSLT handling.

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