Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1424-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

08 Dec 2007

Affected Packages:

iceweasel

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-5947, CVE-2007-5959, CVE-2007-5960.

More information:

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-2007-5947
Jesse Ruderman and Petko D. Petkov discovered that the URI handler for JAR archives allows cross-site scripting.
CVE-2007-5959
Several crashes in the layout engine were discovered, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2007-5960
Gregory Fleischer discovered a race condition in the handling of the window.location property, which might lead to cross-site request forgery.

The Mozilla products in the oldstable distribution (sarge) are no longer supported with security updates.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.0.10-0etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.0.10-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox_2.0.0.10-0etch1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dom-inspector_2.0.0.10-0etch1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox_2.0.0.10-0etch1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.10-0etch1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.10-0etch1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.10-0etch1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.10-0etch1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.10-0etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.