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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - 9.10: 853-1 Critical: Firefox Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2009
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Recent updates for supported Ubuntu versions have addressed critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, effectively reducing the potential for denial of service attacks.
Alin Rad Pop discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox when itconverted strings to floating point numbers

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security advisory denial of service critical heap overflow firefox ubuntu xulrunner

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firefox-3.0, firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9, xulrunner-1.9.1 vulnerabilities

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security advisory denial of service critical heap overflow firefox ubuntu xulrunner

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