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Debian: DSA-1614-1 Moderate: Iceweasel Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2008
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Important updates addressing multiple remote security risks in the Iceweasel web browser have been published as part of Debian Security Advisory DSA-1614-1.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel web browser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser.It was discovered that missing boundary checks on a r...

Summary


It was discovered that missing boundary checks on a reference
counter for CSS objects can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-2933

Billy Rios discovered that passing an URL containing a pipe symbol
to Iceweasel can lead to Chrome privilege escalation.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.0.16-0etch1. Updated packages for ia64, arm and mips are
not yet available and will be released as soon as they have been built.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
xulrunner 1.9.0.1-1 and iceweasel 3.0.1-1.

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 in...

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