| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'iceweasel' package(s) announced via the DSA-1671-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel webbrowser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2008-0017
Justin Schuh discovered that a buffer overflow in the http-index-format parser could lead to arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2008-4582
Liu Die Yu discovered an information leak through local shortcut files.
CVE-2008-5012
Georgi Guninski, Michal Zalewski and Chris Evan discovered that the canvas element could be used to bypass same-origin restrictions.
CVE-2008-5013
It was discovered that insufficient checks in the Flash plugin glue code could lead to arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2008-5014
Jesse Ruderman discovered that a programming error in the window.__proto__.__proto__ object could lead to arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2008-5017
It was discovered that crashes in the layout engine could lead to arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2008-5018
It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine could lead to arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2008-5021
It was discovered that a crash in the nsFrameManager might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-5022
moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that the same-origin check in nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() could be bypassed.
CVE-2008-5023
Collin Jackson discovered that the -moz-binding property bypasses security checks on codebase principals.
CVE-2008-5024
Chris Evans discovered that quote characters were improperly escaped in the default namespace of E4X documents.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.0.18-0etch1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.4-1 of iceweasel and version 1.9.0.4-1 of xulrunner. Packages for arm and mips will be provided soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel package.
Affected Software/OS:
'iceweasel' package(s) on Debian 4.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
10.0
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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