DSA-2858-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-1477   CVE-2014-1479   CVE-2014-1481   CVE-2014-1482   CVE-2014-1486   CVE-2014-1487   CVE-2014-1490   CVE-2014-1491  

Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian's version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, use-after-frees, too-verbose error messages and missing permission checks may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, the bypass of security checks or information disclosure. This update also addresses security issues in the bundled version of the NSS crypto library. This update updates Iceweasel to the ESR24 series of Firefox. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 24.3.0esr-1~deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 24.3.0esr-1. We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2858-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
10 Feb 2014
Affected Packages:
iceweasel
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-1477, CVE-2014-1479, CVE-2014-1481, CVE-2014-1482, CVE-2014-1486, CVE-2014-1487, CVE-2014-1490, CVE-2014-1491.
More information:

Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian's version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, use-after-frees, too-verbose error messages and missing permission checks may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, the bypass of security checks or information disclosure. This update also addresses security issues in the bundled version of the NSS crypto library.

This update updates Iceweasel to the ESR24 series of Firefox.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 24.3.0esr-1~deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 24.3.0esr-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.