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iceweasel - several vulnerabilities

2008-11-2400:00:00
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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-2008-0017
    Justin Schuh discovered that a buffer overflow in the http-index-format
    parser could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2008-4582
    Liu Die Yu discovered an information leak through local shortcut
    files.
  • CVE-2008-5012
    Georgi Guninski, Michal Zalewski and Chris Evan discovered that
    the canvas element could be used to bypass same-origin
    restrictions.
  • CVE-2008-5013
    It was discovered that insufficient checks in the Flash plugin glue
    code could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2008-5014
    Jesse Ruderman discovered that a programming error in the
    window.__proto__.__proto__ object could lead to arbitrary code
    execution.
  • CVE-2008-5017
    It was discovered that crashes in the layout engine could lead to
    arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2008-5018
    It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine could lead to
    arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2008-5021
    It was discovered that a crash in the nsFrameManager might lead to
    the execution of arbitrary code.
  • CVE-2008-5022
    moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that the same-origin check in
    nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() could be bypassed.
  • CVE-2008-5023
    Collin Jackson discovered that the -moz-binding property bypasses
    security checks on codebase principals.
  • CVE-2008-5024
    Chris Evans discovered that quote characters were improperly
    escaped in the default namespace of E4X documents.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.0.18-0etch1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution
(sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.4-1 of iceweasel
and version 1.9.0.4-1 of xulrunner. Packages for arm and mips will be
provided soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel package.