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USN181-1 : mozilla, mozilla-thunderbird, mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
mozilla, mozilla-thunderbird, mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

These remote packages are missing security patches :
- libnspr-dev
- libnspr4
- libnss-dev
- libnss3
- mozilla
- mozilla-browser
- mozilla-calendar
- mozilla-chatzilla
- mozilla-dev
- mozilla-dom-inspector
- mozilla-firefox
- mozilla-firefox-dev
- mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector
- mozilla-firefox-gnome-support
- mozilla-js-debugger
- mozilla-mailnews
- mozilla-psm
- mozilla-thunderbird
- mozilla-thunderbird-dev
- mozilla-thunderbird-inspector
- mozilla-thunderbird-offline
- mozilla-thund
[...]

Description :

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.

Solution :

Upgrade to :
- libnspr-dev-1.7.10-0ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- libnspr4-1.7.10-0ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- libnss-dev-1.7.10-0ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- libnss3-1.7.10-0ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- mozilla-1.7.10-0ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- mozilla-browser-1.7.10-0ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- mozilla-calendar-1.7.10-0ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- mozilla-chatzilla-1.7.10-0ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- mozilla-dev-1.7.10-0ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.10-0ubuntu05.04.
[...]

Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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