Multiple Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities

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Multiple xulrunner-1.9.1 vulnerabilities

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.

30 April 2011

Multiple Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 9.10

Summary

Multiple xulrunner-1.9.1 vulnerabilities

Software Description

  • xulrunner-1.9.1 - XUL + XPCOM application runner

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10
xulrunner-1.9.1 - 1.9.1.19+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1

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 which use Xulrunner to make all the necessary changes.

References