Ubuntu Security Notice USN-181-1
12th September, 2005
mozilla, mozilla-thunderbird, mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.04
- Ubuntu 4.10
Details
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 5.04:
- mozilla-browser
- mozilla-thunderbird
- mozilla-firefox
- Ubuntu 4.10:
- mozilla-browser
- mozilla-thunderbird
- mozilla-firefox
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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