Debian: DSA-1562-1 Moderate: Iceape Arbitrary Code Execution
debian
April 28, 2008
It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine of Iceape,
an unbranded version of the Seamonkey internet suite could
potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.9-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your iceape packages.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 272290 65a6cc900463ab3324a42250ce39c10b
Size/MD5 checksum: 42900009 f2a3c50d814f6e7015f779b10494fac8
Size/MD5 checksum: 1439 7e71d648dcc53a64aa9e8675c09021f8
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