A race condition was discovered in the handling of “Set-Cookie” headers. If the obsolete Netscape recommendation was used for handling cookies in the cache, it was possible for an attacker to steal the cookies of other users.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
8 March 2005
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
A race condition was discovered in the handling of “Set-Cookie” headers. If the obsolete Netscape recommendation was used for handling cookies in the cache, it was possible for an attacker to steal the cookies of other users.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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