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Debian: DSA-1308-1 High: Iceweasel Remote Code Issues and Fixes

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Calendar Grey June 14, 2007
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Various vulnerabilities in Iceweasel have been tackled in the Debian Security Bulletin DSA 1308-1. It is advisable to upgrade for enhanced security measures.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel web browser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser

Summary


Nicolas Derouet discovered that Iceweasel performs insufficient
validation of cookies, which could lead to denial of service.

CVE-2007-2867

Boris Zbarsky, Eli Friedman, Georgi Guninski, Jesse Ruderman, Martijn
Wargers and Olli Pettay discovered crashes in the layout engine, which
might allow the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-2868

Brendan Eich, Igor Bukanov, Jesse Ruderman, moz_bug_r_a4 and Wladimir Palant
discovered crashes in the javascript engine, which might allow the execution of
arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-2869

"Marcel" discovered that malicous web sites can cause massive
ressource comsumption through the auto completion feature, resulting
in denial of service.

CVE-2007-2870

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that adding an event listener through the
addEventListener() function allows cross-site scripting.

CVE-2007-2871

Chris Thomas discovered that XUL popups can can be abused for spoofing or
phishing attacks.

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