Package : xulrunner Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-3844 CVE-2007-3845
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2007-3844
"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.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 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------