Debian DSA-2295-1 : iceape - several vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 55888

Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the Iceape internet suite, an unbranded version of SeaMonkey :

- CVE-2011-0084 'regenrecht' discovered that incorrect pointer handling in the SVG processing code could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2011-2378 'regenrecht' discovered that incorrect memory management in DOM processing could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2011-2981 'moz_bug_r_a_4' discovered a Chrome privilege escalation vulnerability in the event handler code.

- CVE-2011-2982 Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, Nils and Bob Clary discovered memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2011-2983 'shutdown' discovered an information leak in the handling of RegExp.input.

- CVE-2011-2984 'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered a Chrome privilege escalation vulnerability.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected. The iceape package only provides the XPCOM code.

Solution

Upgrade the iceape packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.11-7.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-0084

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2378

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2981

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2982

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2983

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2984

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/iceape

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2295

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 55888

File Name: debian_DSA-2295.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/18/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:iceape, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0084, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2983, CVE-2011-2984

DSA: 2295