Bug#555313: iceweasel: CVE-2009-3371 user-after-free possibly leading to arbitrary code execution

[Nico Golde]

Source: icedove
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for icedove.

CVE-2009-3371[0]:
| Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.4
| allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application
| crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by creating JavaScript
| web-workers recursively.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.


Upstream patch:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/709036ca5768

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3371
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3371

Cheers
Nico

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