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-2012-1937 Mozilla developers discovered several memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2012-1940 Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free problem when working with column layout with absolute positioning in a container that changes size, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2012-1947 Abhishek Arya discovered a heap buffer overflow in utf16 to latin1 character set conversion, allowing to execute arbitrary code.
Note: We’d like to advise users of Iceweasel’s 3.5 branch in Debian stable to consider to upgrade to the Iceweasel 10.0 ESR (Extended Support Release) which is now available in Debian Backports. Although Debian will continue to support Iceweasel 3.5 in stable with security updates, this can only be done on a best effort base as upstream provides no such support anymore. On top of that, the 10.0 branch adds proactive security features to the browser.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2488. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(59766);
script_version("1.12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-1937", "CVE-2012-1940", "CVE-2012-1947");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2488");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2488-1 : iceweasel - several vulnerabilities");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"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-2012-1937
Mozilla developers discovered several memory corruption
bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2012-1940
Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free problem when
working with column layout with absolute positioning in
a container that changes size, which may lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2012-1947
Abhishek Arya discovered a heap buffer overflow in utf16
to latin1 character set conversion, allowing to execute
arbitrary code.
Note: We'd like to advise users of Iceweasel's 3.5 branch in Debian
stable to consider to upgrade to the Iceweasel 10.0 ESR (Extended
Support Release) which is now available in Debian Backports. Although
Debian will continue to support Iceweasel 3.5 in stable with security
updates, this can only be done on a best effort base as upstream
provides no such support anymore. On top of that, the 10.0 branch adds
proactive security features to the browser."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1937"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1940"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1947"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/iceweasel"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2488"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the iceweasel packages.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.5.16-16."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:iceweasel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/06/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/06/29");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"iceweasel", reference:"3.5.16-16")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"iceweasel-dbg", reference:"3.5.16-16")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | iceweasel | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:iceweasel |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1937
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1940
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1947
packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/iceweasel
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1937
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1940
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1947
www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2488