Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel web browser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
Ronen Zilberman and Michal Zalewski discovered that a timing race allows the injection of content into about:blank frames.
Michal Zalewski discovered that same-origin policies for wyciwyg:// documents are insufficiently enforced.
Bernd Mielke, Boris Zbarsky, David Baron, Daniel Veditz, Jesse Ruderman, Lukas Loehrer, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren, Olli Pettay, Paul Nickerson and Vladimir Sukhoy discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
Asaf Romano, Jesse Ruderman and Igor Bukanov discovered crashes in the javascript engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
moz_bug_r_a4
discovered that the addEventListener() and setTimeout()
functions allow cross-site scripting.
moz_bug_r_a4
discovered that a programming error in event handling
allows privilege escalation.
shutdown
and moz_bug_r_a4
discovered that the XPCNativeWrapper allows
the execution of arbitrary code.
The Mozilla products in the oldstable distribution (sarge) are no longer supported with security updates. You're strongly encouraged to upgrade to stable as soon as possible.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.0.5-0etch1. Builds for alpha and mips are not yet available, they will be provided later.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.0.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.