Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel web
browser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- 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-2008-5504
It was discovered that attackers could run arbitrary JavaScript with
chrome privileges via vectors related to the feed preview.
(MFSA 2008-62)
- 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-2008-5510
Kojima Hajime and Jun Muto discovered that escaped null characters
were ignored by the CSS parser and could lead to the bypass of
protection mechanisms (MFSA 2008-67)
- 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)
- CVE-2008-5513
moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that the session-restore feature does not
properly sanitise input leading to arbitrary injections. This issue
could be used to perform an XSS attack or run arbitrary JavaScript
with chrome privileges. (MFSA 2008-69)
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.0.19-0etch1.
For the testing distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid)
these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.5-1. Please note iceweasel
in Lenny links dynamically against xulrunner.
We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel package.