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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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It was discovered that the same-origin check in Thunderbird could
be bypassed. If a user had JavaScript enabled and were tricked into
opening a malicious website, an attacker may be able to execute
JavaScript in the context of a different website. (CVE-2008-3835)
Several problems were discovered in the browser engine of
Thunderbird. If a user had JavaScript enabled, this could allow an
attacker to execute code with chrome privileges. (CVE-2008-4058,
CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060)
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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USN-645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and xulrunner. The upstream
patches introduced a regression in the saved password handling. While
password data was not lost, if a user had saved any passwords with
non-ASCII characters, Firefox could not access the password database.
This update fixes the problem.
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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USN-645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and xulrunner for Ubuntu
7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 LTS. This provides the corresponding update for
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered errors in the
Firefox URL parsing routines. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted hyperlink, an attacker could overflow a stack buffer and
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-0016)
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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It was discovered that rdesktop did not properly validate the length
of packet headers when processing RDP requests. If a user were tricked
into connecting to a malicious server, an attacker could cause a
denial of service or possible execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user. (CVE-2008-1801)
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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It was discovered that libxml2 did not correctly handle long entity names.
If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted XML document,
a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges
or cause the application linked against libxml2 to crash, leading to a
denial of service. (CVE-2008-3529)
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Multiple flaws were discovered in the PFB and TTF font handling code
in freetype. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted
font file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user
privileges or cause the application linked against freetype to crash,
leading to a denial of service.
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