Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• firefox-3.0 -
• xulrunner-1.9 -

Details

It was discovered that the upstream security fixes in USN-764-1 introduced
a regression which could cause the browser to crash. If a user were tricked
into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of
service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
invoking the program.