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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1649-1] New iceweasel packages fix several vulnerabilit

    From Moritz Muehlenhoff@1:229/2 to All on Wed Oct 8 22:20:10 2008
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1649-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff October 08, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : iceweasel
    Vulnerability : several
    Problem-Type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2008-0016 CVE-2008-3835 CVE-2008-3836 CVE-2008-3837 CVE-2008-4058 CVE-2008-4059 CVE-2008-4060 CVE-2008-4061 CVE-2008-4062 CVE-2008-4065 CVE-2008-4066 CVE-2008-4067 CVE-2008-4068 CVE-2008-4069

    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-2008-0016

    Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer
    overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead to the
    execution of arbitrary code.

    CVE-2008-3835

    "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that the same-origin check in
    nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could by bypassed.

    CVE-2008-3836

    "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that several vulnerabilities in
    feedWriter could lead to Chrome privilege escalation.

    CVE-2008-3837

    Paul Nickerson discovered that an attacker could move windows
    during a mouse click, resulting in unwanted action triggered by
    drag-and-drop.

    CVE-2008-4058

    "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a vulnerability which can result in
    Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers.

    CVE-2008-4059

    "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a vulnerability which can result in
    Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers.

    CVE-2008-4060

    Olli Pettay and "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a Chrome privilege
    escalation vulnerability in XSLT handling.

    CVE-2008-4061

    Jesse Ruderman discovered a crash in the layout engine, which might
    allow the execution of arbitrary code.

    CVE-2008-4062

    Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski and Antoine Labour
    discovered crashes in the Javascript engine, which might allow the
    execution of arbitrary code.

    CVE-2008-4065

    Dave Reed discovered that some Unicode byte order marks are
    stripped from Javascript code before execution, which can result in
    code being executed, which were otherwise part of a quoted string.

    CVE-2008-4066

    Gareth Heyes discovered that some Unicode surrogate characters are
    ignored by the HTML parser.

    CVE-2008-4067

    Boris Zbarsky discovered that resource: URls allow directory
    traversal when using URL-encoded slashes.

    CVE-2008-4068

    Georgi Guninski discovered that resource: URLs could bypass local
    access restrictions.

    CVE-2008-4069

    Billy Hoffman discovered that the XBM decoder could reveal
    uninitialised memory.

    For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
    version 2.0.0.17-0etch1. Packages for hppa will be provided later.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
    version 3.0.3 of iceweasel and 1.9.0.3-1 of xulrunner.

    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, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 47264462 caa85228cc0f4d309e85d6991cb95305
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1289 84dfa301f786f84a1d64baf4ed3db782
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 186694 8e6e9a55fde52af390122189070fca57

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54634 b2fd3414c31cebfcf9a1433dcc1d2e93
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54530 fc5fb66d2eaf4027d945dd0a28b2d846
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54384 21762949b8e2fd39ac79476fa24b03d1
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54384 9df9c09b5351c290fee72c24b47a331d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dom-inspector_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 239720 644c28cc69b5ffa408b0c57b92152ec3
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 55170 5d191251cab8743fdd8537c757e39abc
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54494 bf8060f4a48856e3221988210417ebd6

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 11578586 a8c71f32151faca4674a1a09e3b66545
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 51173558 6361a1e6926eb32d5ede6c74671d86f1
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 90252 569480998f4eac60ba8c0f6e62cb275e

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))


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