Mike Hommey uploaded new packages for iceweasel which fixed the
following security problems:
CVE-2010-1585
Roberto Suggi Liverani discovered that the sanitising performed by
ParanoidFragmentSink was incomplete.
CVE-2011-0053
Crashes in the layout engine may lead to the execution of arbitrary
code.
CVE-2011-0051
Zach Hoffmann discovered that incorrect parsing of recursive eval()
calls could lead to attackers forcing acceptance of a confirmation
dialogue.
CVE-2011-0054, CVE-2010-0056
Christian Holler discovered buffer overflows in the Javascript
engine, which could allow the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2011-0055
"regenrecht" and Igor Bukanov discovered a use-after-free error in
the JSON-Implementation, which could lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.
CVE-2011-0057
Daniel Kozlowski discovered that incorrect memory handling the web
workers implementation could lead to the execution of arbitrary
code.
CVE-2011-0059
Peleus Uhley discovered a cross-site request forgery risk in the
plugin code.
For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 3.5.16-5~bpo50+1.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.0.19-8 of the xulrunner source package.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.5.16-5.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.5.17-1.
Upgrade instructions
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If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the package
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install <packagelist>" with
the packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update.
[1] <https://backports.debian.org/Instructions>
We recommend to pin (in /etc/apt/preferences) the backports repository
to 200 so that new versions of installed backports will be installed
automatically.
Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 200