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Debian: DSA-3260-1 Critical: Iceweasel Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2015
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Numerous vulnerabilities addressed in Iceweasel to eliminate potential for arbitrary code execution and strengthen overall security.
Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian's version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows and use-after-frees may ...
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Summary

Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian's version
of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors,
buffer overflows and use-after-frees may lead to the execution of
arbitrary code, privilege escalation or denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 31.7.0esr-1~deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 31.7.0esr-1~deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 38.0-1.

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: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: iceweasel
CVE ID: CVE-2011-3079 CVE-2015-0797 CVE-2015-2708 CVE-2015-2710

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