Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xulrunner
announced via advisory DSA 1484-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201484-1
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-2008-0412
Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0413
Carsten Book, Wesley Garland, Igor Bukanov, moz_bug_r_a4, shutdown, Philip Taylor and tgirmann discovered crashes in the Javascript engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0414
hong and Gregory Fleisher discovered that file input focus vulnerabilities in the file upload control could allow information disclosure of local files.
CVE-2008-0415
moz_bug_r_a4 and Boris Zbarsky discovered discovered several vulnerabilities in Javascript handling, which could allow privilege escalation.
CVE-2008-0417
Justin Dolske discovered that the password storage machanism could be abused by malicious web sites to corrupt existing saved passwords.
CVE-2008-0418
Gerry Eisenhaur and moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that a directory traversal vulnerability in chrome: URI handling could lead to information disclosure.
CVE-2008-0419
David Bloom discovered a race condition in the image handling of designMode elements, which could lead to information disclosure or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0591
Michal Zalewski discovered that timers protecting security-sensitive dialogs (which disable dialog elements until a timeout is reached) could be bypassed by window focus changes through Javascript.
CVE-2008-0592
It was discovered that malformed content declarations of saved attachments could prevent a user in the opening local files with a .txt file name, resulting in minor denial of service.
CVE-2008-0593
Martin Straka discovered that insecure stylesheet handling during redirects could lead to information disclosure.
CVE-2008-0594
Emil Ljungdahl and Lars-Olof Moilanen discovered that phishing protections could be bypassed with <div> elements.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.0.15~pre080131b-0etch1.
The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain xulrunner.
We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-0412, CVE-2008-0413, CVE-2008-0414, CVE-2008-0415, CVE-2008-0416, CVE-2008-0417, CVE-2008-0418, CVE-2008-0419, CVE-2008-0591, CVE-2008-0592, CVE-2008-0593, CVE-2008-0594 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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