USN-398-2: Firefox vulnerabilities

3 January 2007

Firefox vulnerabilities

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USN-398-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox 2.0. This update provides
the corresponding updates for Firefox 1.5.

Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute
arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening
a malicious web page containing JavaScript or SVG. (CVE-2006-6497,
CVE-2006-6498, CVE-2006-6499, CVE-2006-6501, CVE-2006-6502,
CVE-2006-6504)

Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to bypass
Firefox's internal XSS protections by tricking the user into opening a
malicious web page containing JavaScript. (CVE-2006-6503)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 6.06
  • firefox - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.9-0ubuntu0.6.06
  • firefox-dev - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.9-0ubuntu0.6.06
  • libnss-dev - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.9-0ubuntu0.6.06
  • libnss3 - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.9-0ubuntu0.6.06
  • libnspr-dev - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.9-0ubuntu0.6.06
  • libnspr4 - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.9-0ubuntu0.6.06
Ubuntu 5.10
  • firefox-dev - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.9-0ubuntu0.5.10
  • firefox - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.9-0ubuntu0.5.10

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

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