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Sun Solaris Mozilla Layout Engine Unspecified Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA27328
Release Date: 2007-10-23
Popularity: 4,124 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-5464


Description:
Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors within the Mozilla Layout Engine and can be exploited to crash the application or potentially execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in Mozilla 1.7 for Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10 for both the x86 and SPARC platforms.

Solution:
The vendor recommends disabling JavaScript support.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103121-1


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