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Debian: DSA-1555-1 Critical: Iceweasel Remote Code Risk

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2008
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 concerns severe vulnerabilities found in the Firefox browser's rendering engine.
It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine of Iceweasel, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.0.14-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel package.

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 amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 186331 acc1d5eb4be5482e880641305ce90fe8
Size/MD5 checksum: 1289 88eb7bc05fd1d7e443608bc7e351e90a
Size/MD5 checksum: 43546462 0170d711d2fc68dfacf81c03a9f72929

Architecture independent packages:

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