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openSUSE: 2015:0636-1 Important: SeaMonkey Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2015
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest SeaMonkey update addresses two critical security vulnerabilities. Users on openSUSE can install it using zypper or YaST.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

SeaMonkey was updated to 2.33.1 to fix several vulnerabilities.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

* Privilege escalation through SVG navigation (CVE-2015-0818)

* Code execution through incorrect JavaScript bounds checking elimination

(CVE-2015-0817)

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security advisory code execution privilege escalation important openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-279=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-279=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

seamonkey-2.33.1-17.1

seamonkey-debuginfo-2.33.1-17.1

seamonkey-debugsource-2.33.1-17.1

seamonkey-dom-inspector-2.33.1-17.1

seamonkey-irc-2.33.1-17.1

seamonkey-translations-common-2.33.1-17.1

seamonkey-translations-other-2.33.1-17.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

seamonkey-2.33.1-53.1

seamonkey-debuginfo-2.33.1-53.1

seamonkey-debugsource-2.33.1-53.1

seamonkey-dom-inspector-2.33.1-53.1

seamonkey-irc-2.33.1-53.1

seamonkey-translations-common-2.33.1-53.1

seamonkey-translations-other-2.33.1-53.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0817.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0818.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/923534

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0636-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1

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