[ GLSA 200604-18 ] Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 200604-18)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: April 28, 2006
Bug(s): #130887
ID: 200604-18

Synopsis

Several vulnerabilities in Mozilla Suite allow attacks ranging from script execution with elevated privileges to information leaks.

Background

The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader.

Affected Packages

Package: www-client/mozilla
Vulnerable: < 1.7.13
Unaffected: >= 1.7.13
Architectures: All supported architectures

Package: www-client/mozilla-bin
Vulnerable: < 1.7.13
Unaffected: >= 1.7.13
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Several vulnerabilities were found in Mozilla Suite. Version 1.7.13 was released to fix them.

Impact

A remote attacker could craft malicious web pages or emails that would leverage these issues to inject and execute arbitrary script code with elevated privileges, steal local files, cookies or other information from web pages or emails, and spoof content. Some of these vulnerabilities might even be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the client.

Workaround

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

Resolution

All Mozilla Suite users should upgrade to the latest version: