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Bug 100354

Summary: Netscape Multiple Vulnerabilities
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Jimi A. <folajimi>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: critical CC: usata
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Jimi A. 2005-07-26 05:23:32 UTC
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Netscape, where some have unknown
impacts and others can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.

For more information, see vulnerabilities #3, #7, and #9 from
http://secunia.com/advisories/16043/

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Solution:
Update to version 8.0.3.1.
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/default.jsp

For more information, visit http://secunia.com/advisories/16185/
Comment 1 Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-26 05:38:44 UTC
Netscape is hardmasked, so security does not have to take care of this. CC'ed
the maintainer, maybe he wants to bump it, altough hardmasked.