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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #229547,
regarding iceweasel: a running FF/IW steals new local and remote FF/IW instances
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Package: iceweasel
Version: N/A
Severity: grave
Seems that at some point, Mozilla has introduced a 'feature' that fixed the
'another instance of ... already running' issue, so that if you start another
instance of FF it won't complain, but simply it'd open another window of the
already running instance.
So far so good.
The bad news is that this happens with FF launched on a remote system as well,
which is *not* what's supposed to happen.
Here's a scenario:
L. local system: Sarge - stock FF1.5.0.12, FF2.0.0.8, SM1.1.5, Debian's FF.
R. remote system: Etch - same as above, except Debian's FF->IW .
1. On L, ssh -X into R
2.1. On L, start FF - any version
3.1 On R, start FF - any version: the window comes up surprisingly fast;
problem is, that's just another window of the locally running FF! ie
if FF1.5 is running on L, then 'iceweasel' on R opens FF1.5 again.
The converse is also true:
2.2 On R, start IW (or FF/SM)
3.2 On L, start FF (or SM): what you get is another window of the remote
IW/FF/SM.
FF/SM fails to check if the running instance on current $DISPLAY belong to
same host+binary it's being started from.
This has some obvious, and perhaps some not so obvious, security issues.
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paolo
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Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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