DSA-2228-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2228-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

01 May 2011

Affected Packages:

iceweasel

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-0065, CVE-2011-0066, CVE-2011-0067, CVE-2011-0069, CVE-2011-0070, CVE-2011-0071, CVE-2011-0072, CVE-2011-0073, CVE-2011-0074, CVE-2011-0075, CVE-2011-0077, CVE-2011-0078, CVE-2011-0080, CVE-2011-0081.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been found in Iceweasel, a web browser based on Firefox:

• CVE-2011-0069 CVE-2011-0070 CVE-2011-0072 CVE-2011-0074 CVE-2011-0075 CVE-2011-0077 CVE-2011-0078 CVE-2011-0080 CVE-2011-0081

  Scoobidiver, Ian Beer Bob Clary, Henri Sivonen, Marco Bonardo, Mats Palmgren, Jesse Ruderman, Aki Kelin and Martin Barbella discovered memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2011-0065 CVE-2011-0066 CVE-2011-0073

  regenrecht discovered several dangling pointer vulnerabilities, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2011-0067

  Paul Stone discovered that Java applets could steal information from the autocompletion history.

• CVE-2011-0071

  Soroush Dalili discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in handling resource URIs.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem will be fixed soon with updated packages of the xulrunner source package.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.16-7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.19-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.