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Secunia Security Advisory 21950

Secunia Security Advisory 21950
Posted Sep 16, 2006
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - rPath has issued updates for firefox and thunderbird. These fix some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct man-in-the-middle, spoofing, and cross-site scripting attacks, and potentially compromise a user's system.

tags | advisory, spoof, vulnerability, xss
MD5 | fc43b872d411e57db8699ad1e8f4764f

Secunia Security Advisory 21950

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TITLE:
rPath updates for firefox and thunderbird

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21950

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21950/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Spoofing, DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
rPath Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/10614/

DESCRIPTION:
rPath has issued updates for firefox and thunderbird. These fix some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct man-in-the-middle, spoofing, and cross-site scripting
attacks, and potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA21906
SA21939

SOLUTION:
Firefox users should update to:
firefox=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/1.5.0.7-0.1-1

Thunderbird users should update to:
thunderbird=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/1.5.0.7-0.1-1

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-640

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA21906:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21906/

SA21939:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21939/

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About:
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everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

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Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
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Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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