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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200610-04
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Seamonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: October 16, 2006
      Bugs: #147651
        ID: 200610-04

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Synopsis
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The Seamonkey project has reported multiple security vulnerabilities in
the application.

Background
=========
The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver
production-quality releases of code derived from the application
formerly known as 'Mozilla Application Suite'.

Affected packages
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     Package               /  Vulnerable  /                 Unaffected
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  1  www-client/seamonkey       < 1.0.5                       >= 1.0.5

Description
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A number of vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in Seamonkey. For
details please consult the references below.

Impact
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The most severe vulnerability involves enticing a user to visit a
malicious website, crashing the application and executing arbitrary
code with the rights of the user running Seamonkey.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Seamonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-1.0.5"

References
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  [ 1 ] CVE-2006-4253
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4253
  [ 2 ] CVE-2006-4565
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4565
  [ 3 ] CVE-2006-4566
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4566
  [ 4 ] CVE-2006-4568
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4568
  [ 5 ] CVE-2006-4570
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4570
  [ 6 ] CVE-2006-4571
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4571

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200610-04

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/.

License
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/