About SECURITY REPORT: libxul.so, firefox-19.0.2,1 freebsd 9.1 i386

Bernard de Joly b.dejoly at gers.net
Thu Mar 21 21:37:39 UTC 2013


Hi!

I've installed firefox on freebsd 9.1 i386, got this security message
from portupgrade :


> ===>   Registering installation for firefox-19.0.2,1
> ===> SECURITY REPORT: 
>       This port has installed the following files which may act as network
>       servers and may therefore pose a remote security risk to the system.
> /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> 
>       If there are vulnerabilities in these programs there may be a security
>       risk to the system. FreeBSD makes no guarantee about the security of
>       ports included in the Ports Collection

Can you please tell me more about the risk and of course the solution ?

Thanks

Bernard



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