Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel
webbrowser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2008-2798
Devon Hubbard, Jesse Ruderman and Martijn Wargers discovered
crashes in the layout engine, which might allow the execution of
arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-2799
Igor Bukanov, Jesse Ruderman and Gary Kwong discovered crashes in
the Javascript engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-2800
βmoz_bug_r_a4β discovered several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
- CVE-2008-2801
Collin Jackson and Adam Barth discovered that Javascript code
could be executed in the context of signed JAR archives.
- CVE-2008-2802
βmoz_bug_r_a4β discovered that XUL documents can escalate
privileges by accessing the pre-compiled βfastloadβ file.
- CVE-2008-2803
βmoz_bug_r_a4β discovered that missing input sanitising in the
mozIJSSubScriptLoader.loadSubScript() function could lead to the
execution of arbitrary code. Iceweasel itself is not affected, but
some addons are.
- CVE-2008-2805
Claudio Santambrogio discovered that missing access validation in
DOM parsing allows malicious web sites to force the browser to
upload local files to the server, which could lead to information
disclosure.
- CVE-2008-2807
Daniel Glazman discovered that a programming error in the code for
parsing .properties files could lead to memory content being
exposed to addons, which could lead to information disclosure.
- CVE-2008-2808
Masahiro Yamada discovered that file URLS in directory listings
were insufficiently escaped.
- CVE-2008-2809
John G. Myers, Frank Benkstein and Nils Toedtmann discovered that
alternate names on self-signed certificates were handled
insufficiently, which could lead to spoofings secure connections.
- CVE-2008-2811
Greg McManus discovered a crash in the block reflow
code, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.0.15-0etch1.
Iceweasel from the unstable distribution (sid) links dynamically
against the xulrunner library.
We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel package.