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Package: iceweasel
Version: 30.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: security
Hi.
Apparently there are cases where Iceweasel automatically
suggests users an external program or plugin, like when
you click an URI:
irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/btrfs
it suggests Mibbit.
I think this is really a bad idea, especially security wise, as
the user may click on this perhaps already downloading/starting
something as local user (I didn't try it out, since it didn't tell
me what will happen).
If at all, iceweasel should rather suggest any packages in the
Debian main archive, which are capable of handling the requrested
file type / URI schema are whatever.
Cheers,
Chris.
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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src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version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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