Advisories (MDKSA-2006:075 ): mozilla-firefox

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Mandriva Advisories MDKSA-2006:075 : mozilla-firefox

 

Updated mozilla-firefox packages fix numerous vulnerabilities

April 24th, 2006

 

A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Mozilla Firefox browser that could allow a remote attacker to craft malicious web pages that could take advantage of these issues to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges, spoof content, and steal local files, cookies, or other information from web pages.As well, some of these vulnerabilities can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the browser. As well, two crasher bugs have been fixed as well. The updated packages have been patched to fix these problems.

 

 

The released versions of Mandriva GNU/Linux affected are:

• 2006.0
  

Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at:

wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:075

 

Other references:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0748

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0749

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1728

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1729

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1730

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1731

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1732

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1733

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1734

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1735

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1736

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1737

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1738

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1739

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1740

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1742

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1790

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275896

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330900

 

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