Debian Security Advisory DSA 2458-2 (iceape - several vulnerabilities)

Summary
Several vulnerabilities have been found in the Iceape internet suite, an unbranded version of Seamonkey: CVE-2012-0455Soroush Dalili discovered that a cross-site scripting countermeasure related to JavaScript URLs could be bypassed. CVE-2012-0456Atte Kettunen discovered an out of bounds read in the SVG Filters, resulting in memory disclosure. CVE-2012-0458Mariusz Mlynski discovered that privileges could be escalated through a JavaScript URL as the home page. CVE-2012-0461Bob Clary discovered memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2012-0467Bob 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-2012-0470Atte Kettunen discovered that a memory corruption bug in gfxImageSurface may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2012-0471Anne van Kesteren discovered that incorrect multibyte character encoding may lead to cross-site scripting. CVE-2012-0477Masato Kinugawa discovered that incorrect encoding of Korean and Chinese character sets may lead to cross-site scripting. CVE-2012-0479Jeroen van der Gun discovered a spoofing vulnerability in the presentation of Atom and RSS feeds over HTTPS.
Solution
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.11-12 For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your iceape packages.
Insight
The Iceape Internet Suite is an unbranded Seamonkey Internet Suite suitable for free distribution. The Seamonkey Internet Suite is a set of Internet oriented applications. It is the continuity of the Mozilla Suite after it has been abandoned in favor of Firefox and Thunderbird.
Affected
iceape on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
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