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[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
--------------------

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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