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Debian: DSA-1345-1 Urgent: Xulrunner Remote Security Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey August 4, 2007
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Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications

Summary


"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that a regression in the handling of
"about:blank" windows used by addons may lead to an attacker being
able to modify the content of web sites.

CVE-2007-3845

Jesper Johansson discovered that missing sanitising of double-quotes
and spaces in URIs passed to external programs may allow an attacker
to pass arbitrary arguments to the helper program if the user is
tricked into opening a malformed web page.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include xulrunner.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version
1.8.0.13~pre070720-0etch3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version
1.8.1.6-1.

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....

Read the Full Advisory

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