DSA-2553-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2553-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

24 Sep 2012

Affected Packages:

iceweasel

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-1970, CVE-2012-1972, CVE-2012-1973, CVE-2012-1974, CVE-2012-1975, CVE-2012-1976, CVE-2012-3959, CVE-2012-3962, CVE-2012-3969, CVE-2012-3972, CVE-2012-3978.

More information:

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.

The reported vulnerabilities could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or the bypass of content-loading restrictions via the location object.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.5.16-18.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 10.0.7esr-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 10.0.7esr-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.