Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for firefox, seamonkey, and xulrunner. This fixes some vulnerabilities and a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information, conduct phishing attacks, manipulate certain data, and potentially compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for firefox, seamonkey, and xulrunner
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27665
VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/27665/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Spoofing, Manipulation of data, Exposure of sensitive information,
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
https://secunia.com/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for firefox, seamonkey, and xulrunner.
This fixes some vulnerabilities and a weakness, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information,
conduct phishing attacks, manipulate certain data, and potentially
compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA27311
SOLUTION:
All firefox users:
Update to "www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.9" or later.
All firefox binary users:
Update to "www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.9" or later.
All seamonkey users:
Update to "www-client/seamonkey-1.1.6" or later.
All seamonkey binary users:
Update to "www-client/seamonkey-bin-1.1.6" or later.
All xulrunner users:
Update to "net-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.9" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-14.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27311:
https://secunia.com/advisories/27311/
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