xulrunner-1.9.1, xulrunner-1.9.2 vulnerability

29 October 2010

xulrunner-1.9.1, xulrunner-1.9.2 vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Summary

A Xulrunner application could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• xulrunner-1.9.2 - XUL + XPCOM application runner
• xulrunner-1.9.1 - XUL + XPCOM application runner

Details

USN-1011-1 fixed a vulnerability in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding update for Xulrunner.

Original advisory details:

Morten Krakvik discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox. If a user were tricked into navigating to a malicious site, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.10

xulrunner-1.9.2 - 1.9.2.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

xulrunner-1.9.2 - 1.9.2.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

Ubuntu 9.10

xulrunner-1.9.1 - 1.9.1.15+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1

xulrunner-1.9.2 - 1.9.2.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

xulrunner-1.9.2 - 1.9.2.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• USN-1011-1
• CVE-2010-3765