Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
Carsten Book, Wesley Garland, Igor Bukanov, moz_bug_r_a4
, shutdown
,
Philip Taylor and tgirmann
discovered crashes in the JavaScript
engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
hong
and Gregory Fleischer discovered that file input focus
vulnerabilities in the file upload control could allow information
disclosure of local files.
moz_bug_r_a4
and Boris Zbarsky discovered several
vulnerabilities in JavaScript handling, which could allow
privilege escalation.
Justin Dolske discovered that the password storage mechanism could be abused by malicious web sites to corrupt existing saved passwords.
Gerry Eisenhaur and moz_bug_r_a4
discovered that a directory
traversal vulnerability in chrome: URI handling could lead to
information disclosure.
David Bloom discovered a race condition in the image handling of designMode elements, which could lead to information disclosure or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
Michal Zalewski discovered that timers protecting security-sensitive dialogs (which disable dialog elements until a timeout is reached) could be bypassed by window focus changes through JavaScript.
It was discovered that malformed content declarations of saved
attachments could prevent a user from opening local files
with a .txt
file name, resulting in minor denial of service.
Martin Straka discovered that insecure stylesheet handling during redirects could lead to information disclosure.
Emil Ljungdahl and Lars-Olof Moilanen discovered that phishing protections could be bypassed with <div> elements.
The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain xulrunner.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.0.15~pre080131b-0etch1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner packages.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.