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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 2488-1] iceweasel security update

    From Thijs Kinkhorst@1:229/2 to All on Thu Jun 7 23:20:02 2012
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2488-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
    June 7, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : iceweasel
    Vulnerability : several vulnerabilities
    Problem type : local (remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2012-1937 CVE-2012-1940 CVE-2012-1947

    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-2012-1937

    Mozilla developers discovered several memory corruption bugs,
    which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

    CVE-2012-1940

    Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free problem when working
    with column layout with absolute positioning in a container that
    changes size, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

    CVE-2012-1947

    Abhishek Arya discovered a heap buffer overflow in utf16 to latin1
    character set conersion, allowing to execute arbitray code.


    Note: We'd like to advise users of Iceweasel's 3.5 branch in Debian
    stable to consider to upgrade to the Iceweasel 10.0 ESR (Extended
    Support Release) which is now availble in Debian Backports.
    Although Debian will continue to support Iceweasel 3.5 in stable with
    security updates, this can only be done on a best effort base as
    upstream provides no such support anymore. On top of that, the 10.0
    branch adds proactive security features to the browser.

    For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
    version 3.5.16-16.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 10.0.5esr-1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
    these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
    found at: http://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: [email protected]
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