Debian DSA-1338-1 : iceweasel - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 25781

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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-2007-3089 Ronen Zilberman and Michal Zalewski discovered that a timing race allows the injection of content into about:blank frames.

- CVE-2007-3656 Michal Zalewski discovered that same-origin policies for wyciwyg:// documents are insufficiently enforced.

- CVE-2007-3734 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.

- CVE-2007-3735 Asaf Romano, Jesse Ruderman and Igor Bukanov discovered crashes in the JavaScript engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2007-3736 'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that the addEventListener() and setTimeout() functions allow cross-site scripting.

- CVE-2007-3737 'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that a programming error in event handling allows privilege escalation.

- CVE-2007-3738 '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.

Solution

Upgrade the iceweasel packages.

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.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3089

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3656

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3734

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3735

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3736

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3737

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3738

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1338

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25781

File Name: debian_DSA-1338.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:iceweasel, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3089, CVE-2007-3656, CVE-2007-3734, CVE-2007-3735, CVE-2007-3736, CVE-2007-3737, CVE-2007-3738

CWE: 200

DSA: 1338