DSA-2313-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2313-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

29 Sep 2011

Affected Packages:

iceweasel

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-2372, CVE-2011-2995, CVE-2011-2998, CVE-2011-2999, CVE-2011-3000.

More information:

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

• CVE-2011-2372

  Mariusz Mlynski discovered that websites could open a download dialog — which has open as the default action —, while a user presses the ENTER key.

• CVE-2011-2995

  Benjamin Smedberg, Bob Clary and Jesse Ruderman discovered crashes in the rendering engine, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2011-2998

  Mark Kaplan discovered an integer underflow in the JavaScript engine, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2011-2999

  Boris Zbarsky discovered that incorrect handling of the window.location object could lead to bypasses of the same-origin policy.

• CVE-2011-3000

  Ian Graham discovered that multiple Location headers might lead to CRLF injection.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.0.19-14 of the xulrunner source package. This update also marks the compromised DigiNotar root certs as revoked rather then untrusted.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.16-10. This update also marks the compromised DigiNotar root certs as revoked rather then untrusted.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 7.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.