The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1649-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
October 08, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : iceweasel
Vulnerability : several
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0016 CVE-2008-3835 CVE-2008-3836 CVE-2008-3837 CVE-2008-4058 CVE-2008-4059 CVE-2008-4060 CVE-2008-4061 CVE-2008-4062 CVE-2008-4065 CVE-2008-4066 CVE-2008-4067 CVE-2008-4068 CVE-2008-4069
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:
CVE-2008-0016
Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer
overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-3835
"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that the same-origin check in
nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could by bypassed.
CVE-2008-3836
"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that several vulnerabilities in
feedWriter could lead to Chrome privilege escalation.
CVE-2008-3837
Paul Nickerson discovered that an attacker could move windows
during a mouse click, resulting in unwanted action triggered by
drag-and-drop.
CVE-2008-4058
"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a vulnerability which can result in
Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers.
CVE-2008-4059
"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a vulnerability which can result in
Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers.
CVE-2008-4060
Olli Pettay and "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a Chrome privilege
escalation vulnerability in XSLT handling.
CVE-2008-4061
Jesse Ruderman discovered a crash in the layout engine, which might
allow the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-4062
Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski and Antoine Labour
discovered crashes in the Javascript engine, which might allow the
execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-4065
Dave Reed discovered that some Unicode byte order marks are
stripped from Javascript code before execution, which can result in
code being executed, which were otherwise part of a quoted string.
CVE-2008-4066
Gareth Heyes discovered that some Unicode surrogate characters are
ignored by the HTML parser.
CVE-2008-4067
Boris Zbarsky discovered that resource: URls allow directory
traversal when using URL-encoded slashes.
CVE-2008-4068
Georgi Guninski discovered that resource: URLs could bypass local
access restrictions.
CVE-2008-4069
Billy Hoffman discovered that the XBM decoder could reveal
uninitialised memory.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.0.17-0etch1. Packages for hppa will be provided later.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.0.3 of iceweasel and 1.9.0.3-1 of xulrunner.
We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel package.
Upgrade instructions
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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 install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 47264462 caa85228cc0f4d309e85d6991cb95305
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1289 84dfa301f786f84a1d64baf4ed3db782
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 186694 8e6e9a55fde52af390122189070fca57
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 54634 b2fd3414c31cebfcf9a1433dcc1d2e93
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 54530 fc5fb66d2eaf4027d945dd0a28b2d846
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 54384 21762949b8e2fd39ac79476fa24b03d1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 54384 9df9c09b5351c290fee72c24b47a331d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dom-inspector_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 239720 644c28cc69b5ffa408b0c57b92152ec3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/mozilla-firefox_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 55170 5d191251cab8743fdd8537c757e39abc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 54494 bf8060f4a48856e3221988210417ebd6
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 11578586 a8c71f32151faca4674a1a09e3b66545
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 51173558 6361a1e6926eb32d5ede6c74671d86f1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 90252 569480998f4eac60ba8c0f6e62cb275e
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 87924 70015d9a4e458e26ff6b65a2674ff56a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 10206146 ec62c84f919bda242b9d65390d9143be
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 50165526 8b083d926eb7e6da63c0be882af1642f
arm architecture (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49257448 89f6c8c0b51255038eee5d13416fcadb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 81618 59dba0eee92b991d069f883c19680d75
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9256358 4fd0774c50d76457152d406ed19ea367
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49570130 6a6b0cb233e73d4baef8ddbd33029b98
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 82056 91a67db26a7c51ae185d39dedaaf94cb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9122164 5b4e1dfeb171be9542572fc9e490b818
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 14156490 2607bd2156b38eebeb2ecdde49acea53
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 100252 1e28dda1215d01e2cfe35403a52a0fcc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 50513628 0db2edd5ef28c04f8c1d5331e92e100d
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 11063822 d78bb2a163ec303a618ea88e005f0116
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 83196 ef3e17948ca57bebb18890d5ce89e0f8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 53969964 f42e61e36c60c76b24e1bf34600479da
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 83224 be3cb4e303ad8544dd274447451228c6
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 10761380 077af6ef650d85ed023acb5d936318c3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52518328 de36b16feb4052325ed975d9d75a6625
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9937490 9ef7bdd022ec317efaefbfcd5e0b0aa0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 51973444 ee5cb6165d1cda06c158df93f393b833
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 83786 56ad8684dc229e605f7285e48bb10389
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 10366602 06f0cc6f4fab228756f7b088eee305d3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 50839114 fa42c55974b0beece5184341e5ca4340
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 88198 6ebd745cc96c2c6c80cb7f2987138364
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-dbg_2.0.0.17-0etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49179416 00c2781b99157e0f0970b01d1d2e70ed
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-0etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 82000 e74866cfbd6a70b1e7e7b5eb737dc8a8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/iceweasel/iceweasel_2.0.0.17-0etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9199076 95cacd55b0dc6415d62f30394517048a
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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