Package : mozilla Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-1993 CERT advisory : VU#866300 BugTraq ID : 17671
Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott described crashes of Mozilla due to the use of a deleted controller context. In theory this could be abused to execute malicious code.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.8-1sarge6.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mozilla packages.
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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.
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