Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xulrunner-1.9 announced via advisory USN-811-1.
Solution
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
firefox-3.0 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
Ubuntu 8.10:
abrowser 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 firefox-3.0 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
Ubuntu 9.04:
abrowser 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 firefox-3.0 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Firefox and any applications that use xulrunner, such as Epiphany, to effect the necessary changes.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-811-1
Insight
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian discovered that Firefox did not properly display invalid URLs. If a user were tricked into accessing a malicious website, an attacker could exploit this to spoof the location bar, such as in a phishing attack. Furthermore, if the malicious website had a valid SSL certificate, Firefox would display the spoofed page as trusted.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2654 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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