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Debian: DSA-2514-1 Critical Iceweasel Security Update Remote Threats

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Calendar Grey July 17, 2012
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PenguinRunner participants should consider updating to alleviate possible vulnerabilities from identified problems. Essential patches are currently accessible.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceweasel, a web browser based on Firefox

Summary

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-2012-1948

Benoit Jacob, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, and Bill McCloskey
identified several memory safety problems that may lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2012-1950

Mario Gomes and Code Audit Labs discovered that it is possible
to force iceweasel to display the URL of the previous entered site
through drag and drop actions to the address bar. This can be
abused to perform phishing attacks.

CVE-2012-1954

Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free problem in nsDocument::AdoptNode
that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2012-1966

moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that it is possible to perform cross-site
scripting attacks through the context menu when using data: URLs.

CVE-2012-1967

moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that in certain cases, javascript: URLs can
be execu...

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Package: iceweasel
CVE ID: CVE-2012-1948 CVE-2012-1950 CVE-2012-1954 CVE-2012-1966

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