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[BSA-027] Security Update for iceweasel



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
--------------------

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] <http://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

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