Package : mozilla-firefox Vulnerability : several Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE IDs : CVE-2006-2788 CVE-2006-4340 CVE-2006-4565 CVE-2006-4566 CVE-2006-4568 CVE-2006-4571 BugTraq ID : 20042
Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla and derived products such as Mozilla Firefox. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities:
CVE-2006-2788
Fernando Ribeiro discovered that a vulnerability in the getRawDER functionallows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) and possibly execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2006-4340
Daniel Bleichenbacher recently described an implementation error in RSA signature verification that cause the application to incorrectly trust SSL certificates.
CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566
Priit Laes reported that that a JavaScript regular expression can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2006-4568
A vulnerability has been discovered that allows remote attackers to bypass the security model and inject content into the sub-frame of another site.
CVE-2006-4571
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, corrupt memory, and possibly execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-2sarge12.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-1 of firefox.
We recommend that you upgrade your Mozilla Firefox package.
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 at the end of this advisory:
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 - --------------------------------