Package : mozilla-firefox 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. Since Mozilla and Firefox share the same codebase, Firefox may be vulnerable as well.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.8-1sarge7.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your Mozilla Firefox 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 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.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------