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HistoryAug 04, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

Devhelp, Epiphany, Midbrowser and Yelp update

2008-08-0400:00:00
ubuntu.com
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9.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

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

0.435 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.3%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

  • devhelp -
  • epiphany-browser -
  • midbrowser -
  • yelp -

Details

USN-626-1 fixed vulnerabilities in xulrunner-1.9. The changes required
that Devhelp, Epiphany, Midbrowser and Yelp also be updated to use the
new xulrunner-1.9.

Original advisory details:

A flaw was discovered in the browser engine. A variable could be made to
overflow causing the browser to crash. If a user were tricked into opening
a malicious web page, an attacker could cause a denial of service or
possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
the program. (CVE-2008-2785)

Billy Rios discovered that Firefox and xulrunner, as used by browsers
such as Epiphany, did not properly perform URI splitting with pipe
symbols when passed a command-line URI. If Firefox or xulrunner were
passed a malicious URL, an attacker may be able to execute local
content with chrome privileges. (CVE-2008-2933)

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu8.04noarchmidbrowser< 0.3.0rc1a-1~8.04.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchepiphany-gecko< 2.22.2-0ubuntu0.8.04.5UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchepiphany-browser-dbg< 2.22.2-0ubuntu0.8.04.5UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchdevhelp< 0.19-1ubuntu1.8.04.3UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchlibdevhelp-1-0< 0.19-1ubuntu1.8.04.3UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchlibdevhelp-1-dev< 0.19-1ubuntu1.8.04.3UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchyelp< 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.2UNKNOWN

9.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

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

0.435 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.3%