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Gentoo update for mozilla/firefox/thunderbird Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA13724  
Release Date: 2005-01-05

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Spoofing
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x


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Description:
Gentoo has issued updates for mozilla, firefox and thunderbird. These fix some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), detect the presence of local files, spoof the file download dialog, disclose sensitive information, or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA13687
SA12956
SA13144

Solution:
Mozilla users:
Update to "net-www/mozilla-1.7.5" or later.

Mozilla binary users:
Update to "net-www/mozilla-bin-1.7.5" or later.

Firefox users:
Update to "net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0" or later.

Firefox binary users:
Update to "net-www/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0" or later.

Thunderbird users:
Update to "mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-0.9" or later.

Thunderbird binary users:
Update to "mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-0.9" or later.

Original Advisory:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-03.xml

Other References:
SA13687:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13687/

SA12956:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12956/

SA13144:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13144/



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