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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1607-1] New iceweasel packages fix several vulnerabilit

    From Moritz Muehlenhoff@1:229/2 to All on Fri Jul 11 18:20:09 2008
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1607-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
    July 11, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : iceweasel
    Vulnerability : several
    Problem-Type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2008-2798 CVE-2008-2799 CVE-2008-2800 CVE-2008-2801 CVE-2008-2802 CVE-2008-2803 CVE-2008-2805 CVE-2008-2807 CVE-2008-2808 CVE-2008-2809 CVE-2008-2811

    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-2008-2798

    Devon Hubbard, Jesse Ruderman and Martijn Wargers discovered
    crashes in the layout engine, which might allow the execution of
    arbitrary code.

    CVE-2008-2799

    Igor Bukanov, Jesse Ruderman and Gary Kwong discovered crashes in
    the Javascript engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.

    CVE-2008-2800

    "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

    CVE-2008-2801

    Collin Jackson and Adam Barth discovered that Javascript code
    could be executed in the context or signed JAR archives.

    CVE-2008-2802

    "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that XUL documements can escalate
    privileges by accessing the pre-compiled "fastload" file.

    CVE-2008-2803

    "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that missing input sanitising in the
    mozIJSSubScriptLoader.loadSubScript() function could lead to the
    execution of arbitrary code. Iceweasel itself is not affected, but
    some addons are.

    CVE-2008-2805

    Claudio Santambrogio discovered that missing access validation in
    DOM parsing allows malicious web sites to force the browser to
    upload local files to the server, which could lead to information
    disclosure.

    CVE-2008-2807

    Daniel Glazman discovered that a programming error in the code for
    parsing .properties files could lead to memory content being
    exposed to addons, which could lead to information disclosure.

    CVE-2008-2808

    Masahiro Yamada discovered that file URLS in directory listings
    were insufficiently escaped.

    CVE-2008-2809

    John G. Myers, Frank Benkstein and Nils Toedtmann discovered that
    alternate names on self-signed certificates were handled
    insufficiently, which could lead to spoofings secure connections.

    CVE-2008-2811

    Greg McManus discovered discovered a crash in the block reflow
    code, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.


    For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
    version 2.0.0.15-0etch1.

    Iceweasel from the unstable distribution (sid) links dynamically
    against the xulrunner library.

    We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel package.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.15.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 47244449 4fb7fdf128d5c8ce5e880510e58f5cfa
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.15-0etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1289 f29a9bb4fd9f71d203de489050e1f5f5
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.15-0etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 186551 355acbaea7631bbfa0a1013902a7c82a

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox_2.0.0.15-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 55052 f166a298b2e71f4e478c01dc99e9601f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dom-inspector_2.0.0.15-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 239592 281c8418a4d86ab976acf4fd65033606
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox_2.0.0.15-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54520 283777c2a1be7e90d85e7f900c085f40
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.15-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54262 06e72fcbbe44c5d4125137786dfb8011
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.15-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54260 cb6f4ccf969394a3f5b650fb0f8de834
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.15-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54376 fe9ef4ef5de1b277d8a532aeaaaf5581
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.15-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54412 2728ff70a7e5051d7dc5bb424ca17a79

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.15-0etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 50156300 9ab61c77c9b1bb6af19448d2300b3277
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.15-0etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 87772 a3c3f310edeba4b18dfbb8880c8d76f9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.15-0etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 10202026 6017a343bcee74e5922218b25b00a9d9

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.15-0etch1_hppa.deb

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