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Debian DSA-2918-1 Critical: Iceweasel Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2014
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Examine the Debian DSA-2918-1 document, highlighting crucial security adjustments to Iceweasel addressing severe memory vulnerabilities and additional concerns.
Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian's version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows, missing permission chec...

Summary

Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian's version
of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors,
buffer overflows, missing permission checks, out of bound reads,
use-after-frees and other implementation errors may lead to the
execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, cross-site scripting
or denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 24.5.0esr-1~deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 24.5.0esr-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel 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/



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Package: iceweasel
CVE ID: CVE-2014-1518 CVE-2014-1523 CVE-2014-1524 CVE-2014-1529

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