Summary
The remote host is missing an update to iceweasel
announced via advisory DSA 2341-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202341-1
Insight
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceweasel, a web browser based on Firefox. The included XULRunner library provides rendering services for several other applications included in Debian.
CVE-2011-3647
moz_bug_r_a4 discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in addon handling.
CVE-2011-3648
Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that incorrect handling of Shift-JIS encodings could lead to cross-site scripting.
CVE-2011-3650
Marc Schoenefeld discovered that profiling the Javascript code could lead to memory corruption.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.0.19-15 of the xulrunner source package.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.16-11.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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