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-2007-1362
Nicolas Derouet discovered that Xulrunner performs insufficient
validation of cookies, which could lead to denial of service.
- CVE-2007-2867
Boris Zbarsky, Eli Friedman, Georgi Guninski, Jesse Ruderman, Martijn
Wargers and Olli Pettay discovered crashes in the layout engine, which
might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2007-2868
Brendan Eich, Igor Bukanov, Jesse Ruderman, moz_bug_r_a4 and Wladimir
Palant discovered crashes in the Javascript engine, which might allow
the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2007-2869
Marcel discovered that malicious web sites can cause massive
resource consumption through the auto completion feature, resulting
in denial of service.
- CVE-2007-2870
moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that adding an event listener through the
addEventListener()
function allows cross-site scripting.
- CVE-2007-2871
Chris Thomas discovered that XUL popups can be abused for spoofing
or phishing attacks.
The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn’t include xulrunner.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.0.12-0etch1.
The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner packages.