Description: | Description: The remote host is missing an update to xulrunner-1.9.2 announced via advisory USN-975-1.
Details follow:
Several dangling pointer vulnerabilities were discovered in Firefox. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-2760, CVE-2010-2767, CVE-2010-3167)
Blake Kaplan and Michal Zalewski discovered several weaknesses in the XPCSafeJSObjectWrapper (SJOW) security wrapper. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to run arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges. (CVE-2010-2762)
Matt Haggard discovered that Firefox did not honor same-origin policy when processing the statusText property of an XMLHttpRequest object. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to gather information about servers on internal private networks. (CVE-2010-2764)
Chris Rohlf discovered an integer overflow when Firefox processed the HTML frameset element. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-2765)
Several issues were discovered in the browser engine. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-2766, CVE-2010-3168)
David Huang and Collin Jackson discovered that the tag could override the charset of a framed HTML document in another origin. An attacker could utilize this to perform cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2010-2768)
Paul Stone discovered that with designMode enabled an HTML selection containing JavaScript could be copied and pasted into a document and have the JavaScript execute within the context of the site where the code was dropped. An attacker could utilize this to perform cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2010-2769)
A buffer overflow was discovered in Firefox when processing text runs. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-3166)
Peter Van der Beken, Jason Oster, Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Jeff Walden, Gary Kwong and Olli Pettay discovered several flaws in the browser engine. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-3169)
Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: firefox-3.0 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
Ubuntu 9.04: abrowser 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 firefox-3.0 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
Ubuntu 9.10: firefox-3.5 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.2 xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.2 xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: abrowser 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 firefox 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox and any application that use Xulrunner to make all the necessary changes.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-975-1
Risk factor : Critical
CVSS Score: 9.3
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