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HistoryNov 24, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

iceweasel - several vulnerabilities

2008-11-2400:00:00
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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

0.956 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.1%

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.

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

0.956 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.1%