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HistoryMar 29, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

xulrunner - multiple vulnerabilities

2009-03-2900:00:00
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13

9.3 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.961 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.2%

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a
runtime environment for XUL applications, such as the Iceweasel web
browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies
the following problems:

  • CVE-2009-1169
    Security researcher Guido Landi discovered that a XSL stylesheet could
    be used to crash the browser during a XSL transformation. An attacker
    could potentially use this crash to run arbitrary code on a victim’s
    computer.
  • CVE-2009-1044
    Security researcher Nils reported via TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative
    that the XUL tree method _moveToEdgeShift was in some cases triggering
    garbage collection routines on objects which were still in use. In such
    cases, the browser would crash when attempting to access a previously
    destroyed object and this crash could be used by an attacker to run
    arbitrary code on a victim’s computer.

Note that after installing these updates, you will need to restart any
packages using xulrunner, typically iceweasel or epiphany.

As indicated in the Etch release notes, security support for the
Mozilla products in the oldstable distribution needed to be stopped
before the end of the regular Etch security maintenance life cycle.
You are strongly encouraged to upgrade to stable or switch to a still
supported browser.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version
1.9.0.7-0lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.9.0.8-1

We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner package.

9.3 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.961 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.2%