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Gentoo: Mozilla products Multiple vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Gentoo Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and XULRunner, some of which may allow user-assisted arbitrary remote code execution.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200706-06
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Mozilla products: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: June 19, 2007
      Bugs: #180436
        ID: 200706-06

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox,
Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and XULRunner, some of which may allow
user-assisted arbitrary remote code execution.

Background
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Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project,
and Mozilla Thunderbird an email client. The SeaMonkey project is a
community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived
=66rom the application formerly known as the 'Mozilla Application Suite'.
XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap
XUL+XPCOM applications like Firefox and Thunderbird.

Affected packages
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    -------------------------------------------------------------------
     Package                  /  Vulnerable  /              Unaffected
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
  1  mozilla-firefox              < 2.0.0.4                 >=3D 2.0.0.4
  2  mozilla-firefox-bin          < 2.0.0.4                 >=3D 2.0.0.4
  3  mozilla-thunderbird          < 2.0.0.4                 >=3D 2.0.0.4
                                                          *>=3D 1.5.0.12
  4  mozilla-thunderbird-bin      < 2.0.0.4                 >=3D 2.0.0.4
                                                          *>=3D 1.5.0.12
  5  seamonkey                     < 1.1.2                    >=3D 1.1.2
  6  seamonkey-bin                 < 1.1.2                    >=3D 1.1.2
  7  xulrunner                    < 1.8.1.4                 >=3D 1.8.1.4
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
     7 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
    -------------------------------------------------------------------

Description
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Mozilla developers fixed several bugs involving memory corruption
through various vectors (CVE-2007-2867, CVE-2007-2868). Additionally,
several errors leading to crash, memory exhaustion or CPU consumption
were fixed (CVE-2007-1362, CVE-2007-2869). Finally, errors related to
the APOP protocol (CVE-2007-1558), XSS prevention (CVE-2007-2870) and
spoofing prevention (CVE-2007-2871) were fixed.

Impact
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A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web
page that will trigger one of the vulnerabilities, possibly leading to
the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service. It is also
possible for an attacker to spoof the address bar or other browser
elements, obtain sensitive APOP information, or perform cross-site
scripting attacks, leading to the exposure of sensitive information,
like user credentials.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=3Dwww-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.=
0.4"

All Mozilla Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=3Dwww-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-=
2.0.0.4"

All Mozilla Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=3Dmail-client/mozilla-thunderbird=
-2.0.0.4"

All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest
version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=3Dmail-client/mozilla-thunderbird=
-bin-2.0.0.4"

All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=3Dwww-client/seamonkey-1.1.2"

All SeaMonkey binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=3Dwww-client/seamonkey-bin-1.1.2"

All XULRunner users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=3Dnet-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.4"

References
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  [ 1 ] CVE-2007-1362
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2007-1362
  [ 2 ] CVE-2007-1558
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2007-1558
  [ 3 ] CVE-2007-2867
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2007-2867
  [ 4 ] CVE-2007-2868
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2007-2868
  [ 5 ] CVE-2007-2869
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2007-2869
  [ 6 ] CVE-2007-2870
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2007-2870
  [ 7 ] CVE-2007-2871
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2007-2871

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-06.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
 
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