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[DSA1053] DSA-1053-1 mozilla

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1053-1 mozilla

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott described crashes of Mozilla due to the
use of a deleted controller context. In theory this could be abused to
execute malicious code.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7.8-1sarge6.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mozilla packages.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1053
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 17671

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2006 Michel Arboi

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