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SSA-2005-269-01 Mozilla/Firefox

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2005-269-01 Mozilla/Firefox

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

New Mozilla and Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1,
10.2, and -current to fix security issues:

MFSA 2005-59 Command-line handling on Linux permits shell execution
MFSA 2005-58 Firefox 1.0.7 / Mozilla Suite 1.7.12 Vulnerability Fixes
MFSA 2005-57 IDN heap overrun using soft-hyphens

More details about these issues may be found on the Mozilla web site:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Mozilla
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Firefox

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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