Several problems have been discovered in Mozilla. Since the usual praxis of
backporting apparently does not work for this package, this update is
basically version 1.7.10 with the version number rolled back, and hence still
named 1.7.8. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:
CVE-2004-0718, CVE-2005-1937
A vulnerability has been discovered in Mozilla that allows remote
attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript from one page into the
frameset of another site.
CVE-2005-2260
The browser user interface does not properly distinguish between
user-generated events and untrusted synthetic events, which makes
it easier for remote attackers to perform dangerous actions that
normally could only be performed manually by the user.
CVE-2005-2261
XML scripts ran even when Javascript disabled.
CVE-2005-2263
It is possible for a remote attacker to execute a callback
function in the context of another domain (i.e. frame).
CVE-2005-2265
Missing input sanitising of InstallVersion.compareTo() can cause
the application to crash.
CVE-2005-2266
Remote attackers could steal sensitive information such as cookies
and passwords from web sites by accessing data in alien frames.
CVE-2005-2268
It is possible for a Javascript dialog box to spoof a dialog box
from a trusted site and facilitates phishing attacks.
CVE-2005-2269
Remote attackers could modify certain tag properties of DOM nodes
that could lead to the execution of arbitrary script or code.
CVE-2005-2270
The Mozilla browser family does not properly clone base objects,
which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Note that this is the same update contained in DSA-810-1 for Debian stable.
For the testing distribution (etch) this is fixed in version 1.7.8-1sarge2
For the unstable distribution (sid) this is fixed in version 1.7.10-1
This upgrade is recommended if you use mozilla.
If you have the secure testing lines in your sources.list, you can update by running this command as root:
apt-get update && apt-get install mozilla
To use the Debian testing security archive, add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://secure-testing-mirrors.debian.net/debian-secure-testing etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://secure-testing-mirrors.debian.net/debian-secure-testing etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
