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-2008-0412
Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul
Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might allow
the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-0413
Carsten Book, Wesley Garland, Igor Bukanov, moz_bug_r_a4, shutdown,
Philip Taylor and tgirmann discovered crashes in the JavaScript
engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-0414
hong and Gregory Fleischer discovered that file input focus
vulnerabilities in the file upload control could allow information
disclosure of local files.
- CVE-2008-0415
moz_bug_r_a4 and Boris Zbarsky discovered several
vulnerabilities in JavaScript handling, which could allow
privilege escalation.
- CVE-2008-0417
Justin Dolske discovered that the password storage mechanism could
be abused by malicious web sites to corrupt existing saved passwords.
- CVE-2008-0418
Gerry Eisenhaur and moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that a directory
traversal vulnerability in chrome: URI handling could lead to
information disclosure.
- CVE-2008-0419
David Bloom discovered a race condition in the image handling of
designMode elements, which could lead to information disclosure or
potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-0591
Michal Zalewski discovered that timers protecting security-sensitive
dialogs (which disable dialog elements until a timeout is reached)
could be bypassed by window focus changes through JavaScript.
- CVE-2008-0592
It was discovered that malformed content declarations of saved
attachments could prevent a user from opening local files
with a .txt file name, resulting in minor denial of service.
- CVE-2008-0593
Martin Straka discovered that insecure stylesheet handling during
redirects could lead to information disclosure.
- CVE-2008-0594
Emil Ljungdahl and Lars-Olof Moilanen discovered that phishing
protections could be bypassed with <div> elements.
The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn’t contain xulrunner.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.0.15~pre080131b-0etch1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner packages.