various outstanding security updates in mozilla universe packages (as of 1.8.1.13)

various security issues that have been disclosed for mozilla products (as of 1.8.1.13 aka ffox 2.0.0.13) are unfixed in ubuntu.

Examples of outstanding issues for xulrunner:

References:
DSA-1532-1 (http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1532)

Quoting:
"Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a
runtime environment for XUL applications. The Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2007-4879

    Peter Brodersen and Alexander Klink discovered that the
    autoselection of SSL client certificates could lead to users
    being tracked, resulting in a loss of privacy.

CVE-2008-1233

    "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that variants of CVE-2007-3738 and
    CVE-2007-5338 allow the execution of arbitrary code through
    XPCNativeWrapper.

CVE-2008-1234

    "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that insecure handling of event
    handlers could lead to cross-site scripting.

CVE-2008-1235

    Boris Zbarsky, Johnny Stenback, and "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered
    that incorrect principal handling could lead to cross-site
    scripting and the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-1236

    Tom Ferris, Seth Spitzer, Martin Wargers, John Daggett and Mats
    Palmgren discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might
    allow the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-1237

    "georgi", "tgirmann" and Igor Bukanov discovered crashes in the
    Javascript engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary
    code.

CVE-2008-1238

    Gregory Fleischer discovered that HTTP Referrer headers were
    handled incorrectly in combination with URLs containing Basic
    Authentication credentials with empty usernames, resulting
    in potential Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

CVE-2008-1240

    Gregory Fleischer discovered that web content fetched through
    the jar: protocol can use Java to connect to arbitrary ports.
    This is only an issue in combination with the non-free Java
    plugin.

CVE-2008-1241

    Chris Thomas discovered that background tabs could generate
    XUL popups overlaying the current tab, resulting in potential
    spoofing attacks."