Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-327-1)
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 27905
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
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 website 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#Fi refox
for technical details of these vulnerabilities.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.