Security Information / 2011 / Security Information -- DSA-2341-1 iceweasel

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2341-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

09 Nov 2011

Affected Packages:

iceweasel

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650.

More information:

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-2011-3647

  moz_bug_r_a4 discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in addon handling.

• CVE-2011-3648

  Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that incorrect handling of Shift-JIS encodings could lead to cross-site scripting.

• CVE-2011-3650

  Marc Schoenefeld discovered that profiling the JavaScript code could lead to memory corruption.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.0.19-15 of the xulrunner source package.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.16-11.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.