| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'iceweasel' package(s) announced via the DSA-1489-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel web browser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2008-0412
Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0413
Carsten Book, Wesley Garland, Igor Bukanov, moz_bug_r_a4, shutdown, Philip Taylor and tgirmann discovered crashes in the JavaScript engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0414
hong and Gregory Fleischer discovered that file input focus vulnerabilities in the file upload control could allow information disclosure of local files.
CVE-2008-0415
moz_bug_r_a4 and Boris Zbarsky discovered several vulnerabilities in JavaScript handling, which could allow privilege escalation.
CVE-2008-0417
Justin Dolske discovered that the password storage mechanism could be abused by malicious web sites to corrupt existing saved passwords.
CVE-2008-0418
Gerry Eisenhaur and moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that a directory traversal vulnerability in chrome: URI handling could lead to information disclosure.
CVE-2008-0419
David Bloom discovered a race condition in the image handling of designMode elements, which can lead to information disclosure and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0591
Michal Zalewski discovered that timers protecting security-sensitive dialogs (by disabling dialog elements until a timeout is reached) could be bypassed by window focus changes through JavaScript.
CVE-2008-0592
It was discovered that malformed content declarations of saved attachments could prevent a user from opening local files with a .txt file name, resulting in minor denial of service.
CVE-2008-0593
Martin Straka discovered that insecure stylesheet handling during redirects could lead to information disclosure.
CVE-2008-0594
Emil Ljungdahl and Lars-Olof Moilanen discovered that phishing protections could be bypassed with elements.
The Mozilla products from the old stable distribution (sarge) are no longer supported with security updates.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.0.12-0etch1.
We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.
Affected Software/OS:
'iceweasel' package(s) on Debian 4.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
9.3
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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