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Debian Lenny DSA-1886-1 Critical: Iceweasel Remote Threat Detected

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2009
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Security analysts warn of recent vulnerabilities in the iceweasel browser that may expose users to remote threats, prompting urgent updates.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel web browser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser

Summary

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-2009-3079

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that a programming error in the FeedWriter
module could lead to the execution of Javascript code with elevated
privileges.

CVE-2009-1310

Prateek Saxena discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in
the MozSearch plugin interface.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.0.6-3.

As indicated in the Etch release notes, security support for the
Mozilla products in the oldstable distribution needed to be stopped
before the end of the regular Etch security maintenance life cycle.
You are strongly encouraged to upgrade to stable or switch to a still
supported browser.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.0.14-1.

For the experimental distribution, these problem...

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Package: iceweasel

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