A flaw was discovered in how Firefox handled PASV FTP responses. If a user were tricked into visiting a malicious FTP server, a remote attacker could perform a port-scan of machines within the user’s network, leading to private information disclosure.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
27 March 2007
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
A flaw was discovered in how Firefox handled PASV FTP responses. If a user were tricked into visiting a malicious FTP server, a remote attacker could perform a port-scan of machines within the user’s network, leading to private information disclosure.
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.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Firefox or reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes.
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