Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions, disclose sensitive information, cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by errors in Mozilla products. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1251 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-1873 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-1993

Affected Products

www-client/mozilla-firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.16
www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin versions prior to 2.0.0.16
mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.16
mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin versions prior to 2.0.0.16
www-client/seamonkey versions prior to 1.1.11
www-client/seamonkey-bin versions prior to 1.1.11
net-libs/xulrunner versions prior to 1.8.1.16
net-libs/xulrunner-bin versions prior to 1.8.1.16

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.16"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.16"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.16"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-2.0.0.16"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=www-client/seamonkey-1.1.11"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=www-client/seamonkey-bin-1.1.11"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=net-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.16"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=net-libs/xulrunner-bin-1.8.1.16"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2302
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200808-03.xml

ChangeLog

2008-08-06 : Initial release

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