[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for xulrunner
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl uploaded new packages for <packagename> which
fixed the following security problems:
CVE-2010-0159
Henri Sivonen, Boris Zbarsky, Zack Weinberg, Bob Clary, Martijn Wargers
and Paul Nickerson reported crashes in layout engine, which might allow
the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2010-0160
Orlando Barrera II discovered that incorrect memory handling in the
implementation of the web worker API could lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.
CVE-2009-1571
Alin Rad Pop discovered that incorrect memory handling in the HTML
parser could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2009-3988
Hidetake Jo discovered that the same-origin policy can be bypassed
through window.dialogArguments.
CVE-2010-0162
Georgi Guninski discovered that the same origin policy can be bypassed
through specially crafted SVG documents.
For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 1.9.1.8-4~bpo50+1.
Upgrade instructions
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If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the package
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install <packagelist>" with
the packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update.
[1] <http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions>
We recommend to pin the backports repository to 200 so that new
versions of installed backports will be installed automatically.
Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 200
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