USN-1123-1: Xulrunner vulnerabilities

30 April 2011

Multiple xulrunner-1.9.1 vulnerabilities

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Releases

Packages

Details

A large number of security issues were discovered in the Gecko rendering
engine. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote
attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security,
including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and
arbitrary code execution.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications which
use Xulrunner to make all the necessary changes.