Summary
Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian's version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
The Iceweasel version in the oldstable distribution (squeeze) is no longer supported with security updates.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 17.0.9esr-1~deb7u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 24.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your iceweasel packages.
Insight
Iceweasel is Firefox, rebranded. It is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern web application technologies.
Affected
iceweasel on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-1718, CVE-2013-1722, CVE-2013-1725, CVE-2013-1730, CVE-2013-1732, CVE-2013-1735, CVE-2013-1736, CVE-2013-1737 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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