Debian DSA-2458-2 : iceape - several vulnerabilities
critical Nessus Plugin ID 58855
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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-2012-0455 Soroush Dalili discovered that a cross-site scripting countermeasure related to JavaScript URLs could be bypassed.
- CVE-2012-0456 Atte Kettunen discovered an out of bounds read in the SVG Filters, resulting in memory disclosure.
- CVE-2012-0458 Mariusz Mlynski discovered that privileges could be escalated through a JavaScript URL as the home page.
- CVE-2012-0461 Bob Clary discovered memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2012-0467 Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Brian Hackett, Bobby Holley, Gary Kwong, Hilary Hall, Honza Bambas, Jesse Ruderman, Julian Seward, and Olli Pettay discovered memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2012-0470 Atte Kettunen discovered that a memory corruption bug in gfxImageSurface may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2012-0471 Anne van Kesteren discovered that incorrect multibyte character encoding may lead to cross-site scripting.
- CVE-2012-0477 Masato Kinugawa discovered that incorrect encoding of Korean and Chinese character sets may lead to cross-site scripting.
- CVE-2012-0479 Jeroen van der Gun discovered a spoofing vulnerability in the presentation of Atom and RSS feeds over HTTPS.
Solution
Upgrade the iceape packages.For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.11-12
See Also
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0455
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0456
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0458
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0461
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0467
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0470
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0471
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0477
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0479
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 58855
File Name: debian_DSA-2458.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 4/25/2012
Updated: 1/11/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.4
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC: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 Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2012
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2012-0455, CVE-2012-0456, CVE-2012-0458, CVE-2012-0461, CVE-2012-0467, CVE-2012-0470, CVE-2012-0471, CVE-2012-0477, CVE-2012-0479
BID: 52458, 52460, 52461, 52464, 53219, 53223, 53224, 53225, 53229
DSA: 2458