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Debian: DSA-3498-2 High: Epiphany Security Vulnerabilities and Data Leakage

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Calendar Grey June 7, 2012
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA-2500-1 details various security vulnerabilities in the Iceweasel browser and offers guidelines for updating.
Several vulnerabilities have been found in the Iceape internet suite, an unbranded version of Seamonkey

Summary

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 conersion, allowing to execute arbitray code.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.11-13.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid),
this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceape packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



Package: iceape
CVE ID: CVE-2012-1937 CVE-2012-1940 CVE-2012-1947

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