firefox vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.06

Details

Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute
arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening
a malicious URL. (CVE-2006-3113, CVE-2006-3677, CVE-2006-3801,
CVE-2006-3803, CVE-2006-3805, CVE-2006-3806, CVE-2006-3807,
CVE-2006-3809, CVE-2006-3811, CVE-2006-3812)

cross-site scripting vulnerabilities were found in the
XPCNativeWrapper() function and native DOM method handlers. A
malicious web site could exploit these to modify the contents or steal
confidential data (such as passwords) from other opened web pages.
(CVE-2006-3802, CVE-2006-3810)

A bug was found in the script handler for automatic proxy
configuration. A malicious proxy could send scripts which could
execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges. (CVE-2006-3808)

Please see

<http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Firefox&gt;

for technical details of these vulnerabilities.