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-2008-5500
Jesse Ruderman discovered that the layout engine is vulnerable to
DoS attacks that might trigger memory corruption and an integer
overflow. (MFSA 2008-60)
- CVE-2008-5503
Boris Zbarsky discovered that an information disclosure attack could
be performed via XBL bindings. (MFSA 2008-61)
- CVE-2008-5506
Marius Schilder discovered that it is possible to obtain sensible
data via a XMLHttpRequest. (MFSA 2008-64)
- CVE-2008-5507
Chris Evans discovered that it is possible to obtain sensible data
via a JavaScript URL. (MFSA 2008-65)
- CVE-2008-5508
Chip Salzenberg discovered possible phishing attacks via URLs with
leading whitespaces or control characters. (MFSA 2008-66)
- CVE-2008-5511
It was discovered that it is possible to perform cross-site scripting
attacks via an XBL binding to an “unloaded document.” (MFSA 2008-68)
- CVE-2008-5512
It was discovered that it is possible to run arbitrary JavaScript
with chrome privileges via unknown vectors. (MFSA 2008-68)
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.0.15~pre080614i-0etch1.
For the testing distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid)
these problems have been fixed in version 1.9.0.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner packages.