DSA-2180-1 iceape -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2180-1 iceape -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

03 Mar 2011

Affected Packages:

iceape

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-1585, CVE-2011-0051, CVE-2011-0053, CVE-2011-0054, CVE-2011-0055, CVE-2011-0056, CVE-2011-0057, CVE-2011-0059.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the Iceape internet suite, an unbranded version of Seamonkey:

• CVE-2010-1585

  Roberto Suggi Liverani discovered that the sanitising performed by ParanoidFragmentSink was incomplete.

• CVE-2011-0051

  Zach Hoffmann discovered that incorrect parsing of recursive eval() calls could lead to attackers forcing acceptance of a confirmation dialogue.

• CVE-2011-0053

  Crashes in the layout engine may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2011-0054

  Christian Holler discovered buffer overflows in the JavaScript engine, which could allow the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2011-0055

  regenrecht and Igor Bukanov discovered a use-after-free error in the JSON-Implementation, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2011-0056

  Christian Holler discovered buffer overflows in the JavaScript engine, which could allow the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2011-0057

  Daniel Kozlowski discovered that incorrect memory handling the web workers implementation could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2011-0059

  Peleus Uhley discovered a cross-site request forgery risk in the plugin code.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected. The iceape package only provides the XPCOM code.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.11-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.12-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceape packages.