Debian: 2008-02-10 Critical Iceweasel Remote Access Exploits
debian
February 10, 2008
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel
web browser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser
Topics Covered
Summary
Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul
Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might allow
the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0413
Carsten Book, Wesley Garland, Igor Bukanov, "moz_bug_r_a4", "shutdown",
Philip Taylor and "tgirmann" discovered crashes in the Javascript
engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0414
"hong" and Gregory Fleisher discovered that file input focus
vulnerabilities in the file upload control could allow information
disclosure of local files.
CVE-2008-0415
"moz_bug_r_a4" and Boris Zbarsky discovered discovered several
vulnerabilities in Javascript handling, which could allow
privilege escalation.
CVE-2008-0417
Justin Dolske discovered that the password storage machanism could
be abused by malicious web sites to corrupt existing saved passwords.
CVE-2008-0418
Gerry Eisenhaur and "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that a d...
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