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Debian: DSA-1425-1 Critical: Xulrunner Cross-Site Scripting Threat

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2007
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- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory D
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications

Summary


Jesse Ruderman and Petko D. Petkov discovered that the URI handler
for JAR archives allows cross-site scripting.

CVE-2007-5959

Several crashes in the layout engine were discovered, which might
allow the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-5960

Gregory Fleischer discovered a race condition in the handling of
the "window.location" property, which might lead to cross-site
request forgery.

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

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.0.14~pre071019c-0etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.1.11-1.

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
...

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