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iceweasel - several vulnerabilities

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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.