USN-728-2: Firefox vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10

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 7.10

• firefox - 2.0.0.21~tb.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10.1

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

References

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

Related notices

• USN-741-1: thunderbird, mozilla-thunderbird
• USN-728-1: firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9, abrowser
• USN-728-3: firefox