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- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1696-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris January 07, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : icedove
Vulnerability : several vulnerabilities
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0016 CVE-2008-1380 CVE-2008-3835 CVE-2008-4058 CVE-2008-4059 CVE-2008-4060 CVE-2008-4061 CVE-2008-4062 CVE-2008-4065 CVE-2008-4067
CVE-2008-4068 CVE-2008-4070 CVE-2008-5012 CVE-2008-5014 CVE-2008-5017 CVE-2008-5018
CVE-2008-5021 CVE-2008-5022 CVE-2008-5024 CVE-2008-5500 CVE-2008-5503 CVE-2008-5506
CVE-2008-5507 CVE-2008-5508 CVE-2008-5511 CVE-2008-5512

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove
mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail client. 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. (MFSA 2008-37)

CVE-2008-1380

It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine could
potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-20)

CVE-2008-3835

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that the same-origin check in
nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could be bypassed. (MFSA 2008-38)

CVE-2008-4058

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a vulnerability which can result in
Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)

CVE-2008-4059

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a vulnerability which can result in
Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)

CVE-2008-4060

Olli Pettay and "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a Chrome privilege
escalation vulnerability in XSLT handling. (MFSA 2008-41)

CVE-2008-4061

Jesse Ruderman discovered a crash in the layout engine, which might
allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-42)

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. (MFSA 2008-42)

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.
(MFSA 2008-43)

CVE-2008-4067

It was discovered that a directory traversal allows attackers to
read arbitrary files via a certain characters. (MFSA 2008-44)

CVE-2008-4068

It was discovered that a directory traversal allows attackers to
bypass security restrictions and obtain sensitive information.
(MFSA 2008-44)

CVE-2008-4070

It was discovered that a buffer overflow could be triggered via a
long header in a news article, which could lead to arbitrary code
execution. (MFSA 2008-46)

CVE-2008-4582

Liu Die Yu and Boris Zbarsky discovered an information leak through
local shortcut files. (MFSA 2008-47 MFSA 2008-59)

CVE-2008-5012

Georgi Guninski, Michal Zalewski and Chris Evan discovered that
the canvas element could be used to bypass same-origin
restrictions. (MFSA 2008-48)

CVE-2008-5014

Jesse Ruderman discovered that a programming error in the
window.__proto__.__proto__ object could lead to arbitrary code
execution. (MFSA 2008-50)

CVE-2008-5017

It was discovered that crashes in the layout engine could lead to
arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-52)

CVE-2008-5018

It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine could lead to
arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-52)

CVE-2008-5021

It was discovered that a crash in the nsFrameManager might lead to
the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-55)

CVE-2008-5022

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that the same-origin check in
nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() could be bypassed.
(MFSA 2008-56)

CVE-2008-5024

Chris Evans discovered that quote characters were improperly
escaped in the default namespace of E4X documents. (MFSA 2008-58)

CVE-2008-5500

Jesse Ruderman discovered that the layout engine is vulnerable to
DoS attacks that might trigger memory corruption and an integer
overflow. (MFSA 2008-60)

CVE-2008-5503

Boris Zbarsky discovered that an information disclosure attack could
be performed via XBL bindings. (MFSA 2008-61)

CVE-2008-5506

Marius Schilder discovered that it is possible to obtain sensible
data via a XMLHttpRequest. (MFSA 2008-64)

CVE-2008-5507

Chris Evans discovered that it is possible to obtain sensible data
via a JavaScript URL. (MFSA 2008-65)

CVE-2008-5508

Chip Salzenberg discovered possible phishing attacks via URLs with
leading whitespaces or control characters. (MFSA 2008-66)

CVE-2008-5511

It was discovered that it is possible to perform cross-site scripting
attacks via an XBL binding to an "unloaded document." (MFSA 2008-68)

CVE-2008-5512

It was discovered that it is possible to run arbitrary JavaScript
with chrome privileges via unknown vectors. (MFSA 2008-68)


For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1. Packages for
s390 will be provided later.

For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) these problems will be
fixed soon.

For the unstable (sid) distribution these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.0.19-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your icedove packages.

Upgrade instructions
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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:


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