Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xulrunner
announced via advisory DSA 1345-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201345-1
Insight
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2007-3844
moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that a regression in the handling of about:blank windows used by addons may lead to an attacker being able to modify the content of web sites.
CVE-2007-3845
Jesper Johansson discovered that missing sanitising of double-quotes and spaces in URIs passed to external programs may allow an attacker to pass arbitrary arguments to the helper program if the user is tricked into opening a malformed web page.
The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include xulrunner.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.0.13~pre070720-0etch3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.1.6-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-3844, CVE-2007-3845 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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