Package : mozilla-firefox Vulnerability : several Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE IDs : CVE-2006-4310 CVE-2006-5462 CVE-2006-5463 CVE-2006-5464 CVE-2006-5748 CERT advisories: VU#335392 VU#390480 VU#495288 VU#714496 BugTraq IDs : 19678 20957
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-2006-4310
Tomas Kempinsky discovered that malformed FTP server responses could lead to denial of service.
CVE-2006-5462
Ulrich Kühn discovered that the correction for a cryptographic flaw in the handling of PKCS-1 certificates was incomplete, which allows the forgery of certificates.
CVE-2006-5463
"shutdown" discovered that modification of JavaScript objects during execution could lead to the execution of arbitrary JavaScript bytecode.
CVE-2006-5464
Jesse Ruderman and Martijn Wargers discovered several crashes in the layout engine, which might also allow execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2006-5748
Igor Bukanov and Jesse Ruderman discovered several crashes in the JavaScript engine, which might allow execution of arbitrary code.
This update also adresses several crashes, which could be triggered by malicious websites and fixes a regression introduced in the previous Mozilla update.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-2sarge13.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in the current iceweasel package 2.0+dfsg-1.
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 - --------------------------------