Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1671-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 24 Nov 2008
- Affected Packages:
- iceweasel
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0017, CVE-2008-4582, CVE-2008-5012, CVE-2008-5013, CVE-2008-5014, CVE-2008-5017, CVE-2008-5018, CVE-2008-5021, CVE-2008-5022, CVE-2008-5023, CVE-2008-5024.
- More information:
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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.
- CVE-2008-0017
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dom-inspector_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_amd64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_ia64.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.