Debian DSA-2317-1 : icedove - several vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 56395

Synopsis

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

Description

- CVE-2011-2372 Mariusz Mlynski discovered that websites could open a download dialog -- which has 'open' as the default action --, while a user presses the ENTER key.

- CVE-2011-2995 Benjamin Smedberg, Bob Clary and Jesse Ruderman discovered crashes in the rendering engine, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2011-2998 Mark Kaplan discovered an integer underflow in the JavaScript engine, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2011-2999 Boris Zbarsky discovered that incorrect handling of the window.location object could lead to bypasses of the same-origin policy.

- CVE-2011-3000 Ian Graham discovered that multiple Location headers might lead to CRLF injection.

As indicated in the Lenny (oldstable) release notes, security support for the Icedove packages in the oldstable needed to be stopped before the end of the regular Lenny security maintenance life cycle. You are strongly encouraged to upgrade to stable or switch to a different mail client.

Solution

Upgrade the icedove packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.11-1+squeeze5.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2372

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2995

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2998

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2999

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3000

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2317

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 56395

File Name: debian_DSA-2317.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/6/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:icedove, 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: 10/5/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2372, CVE-2011-2995, CVE-2011-2998, CVE-2011-2999, CVE-2011-3000

BID: 49809, 49810, 49811, 49848, 49849

DSA: 2317