Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xulrunner
announced via advisory DSA 1425-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201425-1
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-2007-5947
Jesse Ruderman and Petko D. Petkov discovered that the URI handler for JAR archives allows cross-site scripting.
CVE-2007-5959
Several crashes in the layout engine were discovered, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2007-5960
Gregory Fleischer discovered a race condition in the handling of the window.location property, which might lead to cross-site request forgery.
The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain xulrunner.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.0.14~pre071019c-0etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.1.11-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-5947, CVE-2007-5959, CVE-2007-5960 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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