Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3266 fuse – security update

Tavis Ormandy discovered that FUSE, a Filesystem in USErspace, does not
scrub the environment before executing mount or umount with elevated
privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw to overwrite
arbitrary files and gain elevated privileges by accessing debugging
features via the environment that would not normally be safe for
unprivileged users.

DSA-3264 icedove – security update

Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian’s version of
the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client: Multiple memory safety errors,
buffer overflows and use-after-frees may lead to the execution of
arbitrary code, privilege escalation or denial of service.

DSA-3260 iceweasel – security update

Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian’s version
of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors,
buffer overflows and use-after-frees may lead to the execution of
arbitrary code, privilege escalation or denial of service.