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Pardus: 2010-39: Firefox: Multiple Vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks or compromise a user's system.
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2010-39            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2010-03-09
  Severity: 3
      Type: Local
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Summary
======
Multiple vulnerabilities have been  fixed  in  Firefox,  which  can  be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks or
compromise a user's system.


Description
==========
MFSA 2010-05 XSS hazard using SVG document and binary Content-Type

MFSA  2010-04 XSS  due  to   window.dialogArguments   being   readable
cross-domain

MFSA 2010-03 Use-after-free crash in HTML parser

MFSA 2010-02 Web Worker Array Handling Heap Corruption Vulnerability

MFSA 2010-01 Crashes with evidence of  memory  corruption  (rv:1.9.1.8/
1.9.0.18)


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    xulrunner, all before 1.9.1.8-27-21
    firefox, all before 3.5.8-122-23



Resolution
=========
There are update(s) for xulrunner, firefox. You  can  update  them  via
Package Manager or with a single command from console:

    pisi up xulrunner firefox

References
=========
  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id316
  * http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox35.html

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