[Secure-testing-team] Bug#539891: CVE-2009-2654: allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Package: xulrunner
Severity: important
Tags: security patch

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for xulrunner.

CVE-2009-2654[0]:
| Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to spoof the
| address bar, and possibly conduct phishing attacks, via a crafted web
| page that calls window.open with an invalid character in the URL,
| makes document.write calls to the resulting object, and then calls the
| stop method during the loading of the error page.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2654
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-2654
    Patch: https://bug451898.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=391176

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