iceape - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceape an
unbranded version of the Seamonkey internet suite. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2008-0016
  Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer
  overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead to the
  execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-37)
• CVE-2008-0304
  It was discovered that a buffer overflow in MIME decoding can lead
  to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-26)
• CVE-2008-2785
  It was discovered that missing boundary checks on a reference
  counter for CSS objects can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
  (MFSA 2008-34)
• CVE-2008-2798
  Devon Hubbard, Jesse Ruderman and Martijn Wargers discovered
  crashes in the layout engine, which might allow the execution of
  arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-21)
• CVE-2008-2799
  Igor Bukanov, Jesse Ruderman and Gary Kwong discovered crashes in
  the Javascript engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary
  code. (MFSA 2008-21)
• CVE-2008-2800
  “moz_bug_r_a4” discovered several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
  (MFSA 2008-22)
• CVE-2008-2801
  Collin Jackson and Adam Barth discovered that Javascript code
  could be executed in the context or signed JAR archives. (MFSA 2008-23)
• CVE-2008-2802
  “moz_bug_r_a4” discovered that XUL documements can escalate
  privileges by accessing the pre-compiled “fastload” file.
  (MFSA 2008-24)
• CVE-2008-2803
  “moz_bug_r_a4” discovered that missing input sanitising in the
  mozIJSSubScriptLoader.loadSubScript() function could lead to the
  execution of arbitrary code. Iceape itself is not affected, but
  some addons are. (MFSA 2008-25)
• 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. (MFSA 2008-27)
• 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.
  (MFSA 2008-29)
• CVE-2008-2808
  Masahiro Yamada discovered that file URLs in directory listings
  were insufficiently escaped. (MFSA 2008-30)
• 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 of secure connections.
  (MFSA 2008-31)
• CVE-2008-2810
  It was discovered that URL shortcut files could be used to bypass the
  same-origin restrictions. This issue does not affect current Iceape,
  but might occur with additional extensions installed. (MFSA 2008-32)
• CVE-2008-2811
  Greg McManus discovered a crash in the block reflow code, which might
  allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-33)
• CVE-2008-2933
  Billy Rios discovered that passing an URL containing a pipe symbol
  to Iceape can lead to Chrome privilege escalation. (MFSA 2008-35)
• CVE-2008-3835
  “moz_bug_r_a4” discovered that the same-origin check in
  nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could be bypassed. (MFSA 2008-38)
• CVE-2008-3836
  “moz_bug_r_a4” discovered that several vulnerabilities in
  feedWriter could lead to Chrome privilege escalation. (MFSA 2008-39)
• CVE-2008-3837
  Paul Nickerson discovered that an attacker could move windows
  during a mouse click, resulting in unwanted action triggered by
  drag-and-drop. (MFSA 2008-40)
• CVE-2008-4058
  “moz_bug_r_a4” discovered a vulnerability which can result in
  Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)
• CVE-2008-4059
  “moz_bug_r_a4” discovered a vulnerability which can result in
  Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)
• CVE-2008-4060
  Olli Pettay and “moz_bug_r_a4” discovered a Chrome privilege
  escalation vulnerability in XSLT handling. (MFSA 2008-41)
• CVE-2008-4061
  Jesse Ruderman discovered a crash in the layout engine, which might
  allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-42)
• CVE-2008-4062
  Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski and Antoine Labour
  discovered crashes in the Javascript engine, which might allow the
  execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-42)
• CVE-2008-4065
  Dave Reed discovered that some Unicode byte order marks are
  stripped from Javascript code before execution, which can result in
  code being executed, which were otherwise part of a quoted string.
  (MFSA 2008-43)
• CVE-2008-4067
  Boris Zbarsky discovered that resource: URLs allow directory
  traversal when using URL-encoded slashes. (MFSA 2008-44)
• CVE-2008-4068
  Georgi Guninski discovered that resource: URLs could bypass local
  access restrictions. (MFSA 2008-44)
• CVE-2008-4069
  Billy Hoffman discovered that the XBM decoder could reveal
  uninitialised memory. (MFSA 2008-45)
• CVE-2008-4070
  It was discovered that a buffer overflow could be triggered via a
  long header in a news article, which could lead to arbitrary code
  execution. (MFSA 2008-46)
• CVE-2008-5012
  Georgi Guninski, Michal Zalewski and Chris Evan discovered that
  the canvas element could be used to bypass same-origin
  restrictions. (MFSA 2008-48)
• CVE-2008-5013
  It was discovered that insufficient checks in the Flash plugin glue
  code could lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-49)
• CVE-2008-5014
  Jesse Ruderman discovered that a programming error in the
  window.__proto__.__proto__ object could lead to arbitrary code
  execution. (MFSA 2008-50)
• CVE-2008-5017
  It was discovered that crashes in the layout engine could lead to
  arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-52)
• CVE-2008-0017
  Justin Schuh discovered that a buffer overflow in http-index-format
  parser could lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-54)
• CVE-2008-5021
  It was discovered that a crash in the nsFrameManager might lead to
  the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-55)
• CVE-2008-5022
  “moz_bug_r_a4” discovered that the same-origin check in
  nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() could be bypassed.
  (MFSA 2008-56)
• CVE-2008-5024
  Chris Evans discovered that quote characters were improperly
  escaped in the default namespace of E4X documents. (MFSA 2008-58)
• CVE-2008-4582
  Liu Die Yu discovered an information leak through local shortcut
  files. (MFSA 2008-59)
• CVE-2008-5500
  Jesse Ruderman discovered that the layout engine is vulnerable to
  DoS attacks that might trigger memory corruption and an integer
  overflow. (MFSA 2008-60)
• CVE-2008-5503
  Boris Zbarsky discovered that an information disclosure attack could
  be performed via XBL bindings. (MFSA 2008-61)
• CVE-2008-5506
  Marius Schilder discovered that it is possible to obtain sensible
  data via a XMLHttpRequest. (MFSA 2008-64)
• CVE-2008-5507
  Chris Evans discovered that it is possible to obtain sensible data
  via a JavaScript URL. (MFSA 2008-65)
• CVE-2008-5508
  Chip Salzenberg discovered possible phishing attacks via URLs with
  leading whitespaces or control characters. (MFSA 2008-66)
• CVE-2008-5511
  It was discovered that it is possible to perform cross-site scripting
  attacks via an XBL binding to an “unloaded document.” (MFSA 2008-68)
• CVE-2008-5512
  It was discovered that it is possible to run arbitrary JavaScript
  with chrome privileges via unknown vectors. (MFSA 2008-68)

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.13~pre080614i-0etch1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) these problems
will be fixed soon.

For the unstable (sid) distribution these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.14-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceape packages.