Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200509-11.
Solution
All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r7'
All Mozilla Suite users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/mozilla-1.7.11-r3'
There are no fixed Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Suite binaries yet. Users of the mozilla-bin or mozilla-firefox-bin packages should either switch to the source-based versions or apply the workaround.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200509-11 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105396
https://addons.mozilla.org/messages/307259.html
Insight
Mozilla Suite and Firefox are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that might be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-2871 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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