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-2008-2785
It was discovered that missing boundary checks on a reference
counter for CSS objects can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-2798
Devon Hubbard, Jesse Ruderman and Martijn Wargers discovered
crashes in the layout engine, which might allow the execution of
arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-2799
Igor Bukanov, Jesse Ruderman and Gary Kwong discovered crashes in
the Javascript engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-2800
moz_bug_r_a4 discovered several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
- CVE-2008-2801
Collin Jackson and Adam Barth discovered that Javascript code
could be executed in the context of signed JAR archives.
- CVE-2008-2802
moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that XUL documents can escalate
privileges by accessing the pre-compiled fastload file.
- CVE-2008-2803
moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that missing input sanitising in the
mozIJSSubScriptLoader.loadSubScript() function could lead to the
execution of arbitrary code. Iceweasel itself is not affected, but
some addons are.
- CVE-2008-2805
Claudio Santambrogio discovered that missing access validation in
DOM parsing allows malicious web sites to force the browser to
upload local files to the server, which could lead to information
disclosure.
- CVE-2008-2807
Daniel Glazman discovered that a programming error in the code for
parsing .properties files could lead to memory content being
exposed to addons, which could lead to information disclosure.
- CVE-2008-2808
Masahiro Yamada discovered that file URLs in directory listings
were insufficiently escaped.
- CVE-2008-2809
John G. Myers, Frank Benkstein and Nils Toedtmann discovered that
alternate names on self-signed certificates were handled
insufficiently, which could lead to spoofing of secure connections.
- CVE-2008-2811
Greg McManus discovered a crash in the block reflow
code, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-2933
Billy Rios discovered that passing an URL containing a pipe symbol
to Iceweasel can lead to Chrome privilege escalation.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.0.15~pre080614d-0etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.9.0.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner packages.