Secunia Security Advisory - Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, and compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46757
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-09
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DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox and
Thunderbird, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose
potentially sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting
attacks, and compromise a user's system.
1) An error within the JSSubScriptLoader can be exploited to execute
arbitrary code by tricking a user into installing a malicious
plug-in.
For more information see vulnerability #7 in:
SA46171
2) An error exists when parsing invalid sequences in the Shift-JIS
encoding.
For more information see vulnerability #1 in:
SA46773
3) An error exists when using Firebug to profile a JavaScript file.
For more information see vulnerability #5 in:
SA46773
The vulnerabilities are reported in the following products:
* Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.6.24
* Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 3.1.16.
SOLUTION:
Update to Firefox version 3.6.24 and Thunderbird version 3.1.16.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
1) moz_bug_r_a4
2) Yosuke Hasegawa
3) Marc Schoenefeld
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-46.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-47.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-49.html
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