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HistoryOct 08, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

iceweasel - several vulnerabilities

2008-10-0800:00:00
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10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.963 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.3%

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-2008-0016
    Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer
    overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead to the
    execution of arbitrary code.
  • CVE-2008-3835
    moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that the same-origin check in
    nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could by bypassed.
  • CVE-2008-3836
    moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that several vulnerabilities in
    feedWriter could lead to Chrome privilege escalation.
  • CVE-2008-3837
    Paul Nickerson discovered that an attacker could move windows
    during a mouse click, resulting in unwanted action triggered by
    drag-and-drop.
  • CVE-2008-4058
    moz_bug_r_a4 discovered a vulnerability which can result in
    Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers.
  • CVE-2008-4059
    moz_bug_r_a4 discovered a vulnerability which can result in
    Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers.
  • CVE-2008-4060
    Olli Pettay and moz_bug_r_a4 discovered a Chrome privilege
    escalation vulnerability in XSLT handling.
  • CVE-2008-4061
    Jesse Ruderman discovered a crash in the layout engine, which might
    allow the execution of arbitrary code.
  • CVE-2008-4062
    Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski and Antoine Labour
    discovered crashes in the Javascript engine, which might allow the
    execution of arbitrary code.
  • CVE-2008-4065
    Dave Reed discovered that some Unicode byte order marks are
    stripped from Javascript code before execution, which can result in
    code being executed, which were otherwise part of a quoted string.
  • CVE-2008-4066
    Gareth Heyes discovered that some Unicode surrogate characters are
    ignored by the HTML parser.
  • CVE-2008-4067
    Boris Zbarsky discovered that resource: URLs allow directory
    traversal when using URL-encoded slashes.
  • CVE-2008-4068
    Georgi Guninski discovered that resource: URLs could bypass local
    access restrictions.
  • CVE-2008-4069
    Billy Hoffman discovered that the XBM decoder could reveal
    uninitialised memory.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.0.17-0etch1. Packages for hppa will be provided later.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.0.3 of iceweasel and 1.9.0.3-1 of xulrunner.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.963 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.3%