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Gentoo: GLSA-201701-35 Moderate: SeaMonkey Remote Code Issue

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2017
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Various security flaws in Mozilla SeaMonkey may result in remote code exploitation or service disruption on systems running Gentoo.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla SeaMonkey, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla SeaMonkey. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo multiple issues remote code normal severity seamonkey update

Resolution

All Mozilla SeaMonkey users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-2.46-r1"
All Mozilla SeaMonkey-bin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-bin-2.46"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-1521 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1521 [ 2 ] CVE-2016-1521 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1521 [ 3 ] CVE-2016-1522 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1522 [ 4 ] CVE-2016-1522 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1522 [ 5 ] CVE-2016-1523 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1523 [ 6 ] CVE-2016-1523 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1523 [ 7 ] CVE-2016-1526 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1526 [ 8 ] CVE-2016-1526 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1526 [ 9 ] CVE-2016-9079 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9079

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-35
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Concerns

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.

Severity: Normal
Title: Mozilla SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 13, 2017
Bugs: #539242, #541506, #574968, #604500
ID: 201701-35

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo multiple issues remote code normal severity seamonkey update

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla SeaMonkey, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Mozilla SeaMonkey is a free and open-source Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/seamonkey < 2.46-r1 >= 2.46-r1 2 www-client/seamonkey-bin < 2.46 >= 2.46 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages

Impact

===== A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or obtain sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.