Debian DSA-1345-1 : xulrunner - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 25853

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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

- CVE-2007-3844 'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that a regression in the handling of'about:blank' windows used by addons may lead to an attacker being able to modify the content of websites.

- CVE-2007-3845 Jesper Johansson discovered that missing sanitising of double-quotes and spaces in URIs passed to external programs may allow an attacker to pass arbitrary arguments to the helper program if the user is tricked into opening a malformed web page.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include xulrunner.

Solution

Upgrade the xulrunner packages.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.0.13~pre070720-0etch3.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25853

File Name: debian_DSA-1345.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/13/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xulrunner, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3844, CVE-2007-3845

DSA: 1345

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