Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Ubuntu Security : Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerability

Users of Ubuntu Security please be advised of a Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-957-2: USN-957-2 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerability
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-957-2

Details follow:



USN-957-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. Daniel Holbert

discovered that the fix for CVE-2010-1214 introduced a regression which did

not properly initialize a plugin pointer. If a user were tricked into

viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the

browser or run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program.
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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