USN-381-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.06
• Ubuntu 5.10

Details

USN-351-1 fixed a flaw in the verification of PKCS certificate
signatures. Ulrich Kuehn discovered a variant of the original attack
which the original fix did not cover. (CVE-2006-5462)

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. (CVE-2006-5463,
CVE-2006-5464, CVE-2006-5747, CVE-2006-5748)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 6.06

• firefox - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06
• firefox-dev - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06
• libnss-dev - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06
• libnss3 - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06
• libnspr-dev - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06
• libnspr4 - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06

Ubuntu 5.10

• firefox-dev - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.5.10
• firefox - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.5.10

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

References

• CVE-2006-5462
• CVE-2006-5463
• CVE-2006-5464
• CVE-2006-5747
• CVE-2006-5748

Related notices

• USN-382-1: mozilla-thunderbird