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USN-181-1: Mozilla products vulnerability

12 September 2005

Mozilla products vulnerability

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Details

Tom Ferris discovered a buffer overflow in the Mozilla products
(Mozilla browser, Firefox, Thunderbird). By tricking an user to click
on a Hyperlink with a specially crafted destination URL, a remote
attacker could crash the application. It might even be possible to
exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code, but this has
not yet been confirmed.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 5.04
  • mozilla-thunderbird -
  • mozilla-browser -
  • mozilla-firefox -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • mozilla-thunderbird -
  • mozilla-browser -
  • mozilla-firefox -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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