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Debian 4.0 DSA-1607-1 Severe: Iceweasel Remote Code Threat

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2008
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Devon Hubbard, Jesse Ruderman and Martijn Wargers discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary


Devon Hubbard, Jesse Ruderman and Martijn Wargers discovered
crashes in the layout engine, which might allow the execution of
arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-2799

Igor Bukanov, Jesse Ruderman and Gary Kwong discovered crashes in
the Javascript engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-2800

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

CVE-2008-2801

Collin Jackson and Adam Barth discovered that Javascript code
could be executed in the context or signed JAR archives.

CVE-2008-2802

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that XUL documements can escalate
privileges by accessing the pre-compiled "fastload" file.

CVE-2008-2803

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that missing input sanitising in the
mozIJSSubScriptLoader.loadSubScript() function could lead to the
execution of arbitrary code. Iceweasel itself is not affected, but
some addons are.

CVE-2008-2805

Claudio Santambrogio discovered that ...

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