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Gentoo: GLSA-202112-01 Normal: Firefox Exploit Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey December 6, 2020
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A series of security flaws detected in SeaMonkey pose a severe threat of unauthorized code execution, necessitating an immediate software update.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in SeaMonkey, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SeaMonkey. Please review referenced release notes for more details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo security issue code execution advisory update instructions arbitrary execution SeaMonkey normal normal severity

Resolution

All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-2.53.5.1"
Gentoo has discontinued support for the SeaMonkey binary package. We recommend that users unmerge the SeaMonkey binary package:
# emerge --unmerge "www-client/seamonkey-bin"
NOTE: The Gentoo developer(s) maintaining the SeaMonkey binary package have discontinued support at this time. It may be possible that a new Gentoo developer will update it at a later date. The alternative is using the standard SeaMonkey package.

References

[ 1 ] SeaMonkey 2.53.2 Release Notes https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.2/ [ 2 ] SeaMonkey 2.53.3 Release Notes https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.3/ [ 3 ] SeaMonkey 2.53.4 Release Notes https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.4/ [ 4 ] SeaMonkey 2.53.5 Release Notes https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.5/ [ 5 ] SeaMonkey 2.53.5.1 Release Notes https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.5.1/

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-02
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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: SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 07, 2020
Bugs: #718738, #718746
ID: 202012-02

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo security issue code execution advisory update instructions arbitrary execution SeaMonkey normal normal severity

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in SeaMonkey, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

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".

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/seamonkey < 2.53.5.1 >= 2.53.5 2 www-client/seamonkey-bin <= 2.49.1_rc2 Vulnerable! ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate to another package if one is available or wait for the existing packages to be marked stable by their architecture maintainers. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages

Impact

===== Please review the referenced release notes for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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