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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1671-1] New iceweasel packages fix several vulnerabilit

    From Moritz Muehlenhoff@1:229/2 to All on Mon Nov 24 22:40:11 2008
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1671-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff November 24, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : iceweasel
    Vulnerability : several
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2008-0017 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

    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.

    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_2.0.0.18-0etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 186777 18d2492164c72b846fab74bd75a69e1b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 47266681 ad1a208d95dedeafddbe7377de88d4d9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1289 84983c4e7f053c1f0eb3ea3d154bc6ad

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54478 73ed36d6990d6b86e8fccef00a9029b1
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54626 bcc4bd1443fe23e5311396949bac9f32
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54596 62200645f81cd0e505fd40382333d010
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54742 045a9714ca0a04061cee79bc16b4b940
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 55274 09fdae147e16b09ad51544ab1fd218e6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dom-inspector_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 239810 beeee1e8cab02ec9a70d89df8db4610b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.18-0etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54480 15636d866284ca7caf11bd939792df97

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 11587524 82c7dae5efa5f21333843c5204036f9d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 51194740 8a6f236c8bef5e6b0b16df05a7fd866d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 90332 8791b1fcc9a3bbfcaac993d65b1b77cd

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.18-0etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 88014 4e4a404cb859067e8804b793b06b1a5a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.18-0etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 50189682 3fe64a570e13497a49ac77972ead0ac0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.18-0etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 10213098 a38d4ae01ab60abab641411ee7aedba1

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)


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