DSA-2457-2 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2457-2 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

13 May 2012

Affected Packages:

iceweasel

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-0467, CVE-2012-0470, CVE-2012-0471, CVE-2012-0477, CVE-2012-0479.

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.

• CVE-2012-0467

  Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Brian Hackett, Bobby Holley, Gary Kwong, Hilary Hall, Honza Bambas, Jesse Ruderman, Julian Seward, and Olli Pettay discovered memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2012-0470

  Atte Kettunen discovered that a memory corruption bug in gfxImageSurface may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2012-0471

  Anne van Kesteren discovered that incorrect multibyte character encoding may lead to cross-site scripting.

• CVE-2012-0477

  Masato Kinugawa discovered that incorrect encoding of Korean and Chinese character sets may lead to cross-site scripting.

• CVE-2012-0479

  Jeroen van der Gun discovered a spoofing vulnerability in the presentation of Atom and RSS feeds over HTTPS.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.16-15.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 10.0.4esr-1.

For the experimental distribution, this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.