Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, some of which may allow the remote execution of arbitrary code. mozilla-firefox January 04, 2007 January 04, 2007: 01 156023 remote 1.5.0.9 1.5.0.9 1.5.0.9 1.5.0.9

Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project.

An anonymous researcher found evidence of memory corruption in the way Mozilla Firefox handles certain types of SVG comment DOM nodes. Additionally, Frederik Reiss discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the conversion of a CSS cursor. Other issues with memory corruption were also fixed. Mozilla Firefox also contains less severe vulnerabilities involving JavaScript and Java.

An attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web page that will trigger one of the vulnerabilities, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code. It is also possible for an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks, leading to the exposure of sensitive information, like user credentials.

There are no known workarounds for all the issues at this time.

All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.9"

All Mozilla Firefox binary release users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.9" CVE-2006-6497 CVE-2006-6498 CVE-2006-6499 CVE-2006-6500 CVE-2006-6501 CVE-2006-6502 CVE-2006-6503 CVE-2006-6504 CVE-2006-6506 CVE-2006-6507 falco falco