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openSUSE: 2017:0356-1 Critical: Seamonkey Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Mozilla's Seamonkey update for openSUSE resolves critical vulnerabilities, notably a buffer overflow. Key enhancements deployed.
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Description

This update for Seamonkey to version 2.46 fixes security issues and bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

- Fix all Gecko related security issues between 43.0.1 and 49.0.2

- CVE-2016-6354: buffer overrun in flex (boo#990856)

The following non-security changes are included:

- improve recognition of LANGUAGE env variable (boo#1017174)

- improve TLS compatibility with certain websites (boo#1021636)

- Seamonkey now requires NSPR 4.12 and NSS 3.25

- based on Gecko 49.0.2

- Chatzilla and DOM Inspector were disabled

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update buffer overrun important fix seamonkey 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 Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-189=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-189=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

seamonkey-2.46-9.2

seamonkey-debuginfo-2.46-9.2

seamonkey-debugsource-2.46-9.2

seamonkey-translations-common-2.46-9.2

seamonkey-translations-other-2.46-9.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

seamonkey-2.46-9.2

seamonkey-debuginfo-2.46-9.2

seamonkey-debugsource-2.46-9.2

seamonkey-translations-common-2.46-9.2

seamonkey-translations-other-2.46-9.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6354.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1017174

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021636

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984637

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990856

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0356-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 openSUSE Leap 42.1

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security advisory software update buffer overrun important fix seamonkey openSUSE

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