Debian 4.0 DSA-1344-1 Moderate: Iceweasel Remote Issue Fix

debian

August 3, 2007

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel web browser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue debian remote web browser iceweasel

Summary

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that a regression in the handling of
"about:blank" windows used by addons may lead to an attacker being
able to modify the content of web sites.

CVE-2007-3845

Jesper Johansson discovered that missing sanitising of double-quotes
and spaces in URIs passed to external programs may allow an attacker
to pass arbitrary arguments to the helper program if the user is
tricked into opening a malformed web page.

The Mozilla products in the oldstable distribution (sarge) are no longer
supported with with security updates.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version
2.0.0.6-0etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version
2.0.0.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel 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 pack...