Tom Ferris discovered a buffer overflow in the Mozilla products (Mozilla browser, Firefox, Thunderbird). By tricking an user to click on a Hyperlink with a specially crafted destination URL, a remote attacker could crash the application. It might even be possible to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code, but this has not yet been confirmed.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
12 September 2005
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Tom Ferris discovered a buffer overflow in the Mozilla products (Mozilla browser, Firefox, Thunderbird). By tricking an user to click on a Hyperlink with a specially crafted destination URL, a remote attacker could crash the application. It might even be possible to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code, but this has not yet been confirmed.
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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