Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2186-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
09 Mar 2011
Affected Packages:
iceweasel
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-1585, CVE-2011-0051, CVE-2011-0053, CVE-2011-0054, CVE-2011-0055, CVE-2011-0055, CVE-2011-0056, CVE-2011-0057, CVE-2011-0059.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceweasel, a web browser based on Firefox. The included XULRunner library provides rendering services for several other applications included in Debian.

  • CVE-2010-1585

    Roberto Suggi Liverani discovered that the sanitising performed by ParanoidFragmentSink was incomplete.

  • CVE-2011-0051

    Zach Hoffmann discovered that incorrect parsing of recursive eval() calls could lead to attackers forcing acceptance of a confirmation dialogue.

  • CVE-2011-0053

    Crashes in the layout engine may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2011-0054, CVE-2010-0056

    Christian Holler discovered buffer overflows in the Javascript engine, which could allow the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2011-0055

    regenrecht and Igor Bukanov discovered a use-after-free error in the JSON-Implementation, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2011-0057

    Daniel Kozlowski discovered that incorrect memory handling the web workers implementation could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2011-0059

    Peleus Uhley discovered a cross-site request forgery risk in the plugin code.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.0.19-8 of the xulrunner source package.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.16-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.17-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.