USN-728-3: Firefox vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• firefox -

Details

Jesse Ruderman and Gary Kwong discovered flaws in the browser engine.
If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote
attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0774)

Georgi Guninski discovered a flaw when Firefox performed a
cross-domain redirect. An attacker could bypass the same-origin policy
in Firefox by utilizing nsIRDFService and steal private data from
users authenticated to the redirected website. (CVE-2009-0776)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06

• firefox - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614k-0ubuntu1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Firefox to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-0776
• CVE-2009-0772
• CVE-2009-0774

Related notices

• USN-741-1: thunderbird, mozilla-thunderbird
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