openSUSE: 2023:0278-1 Critical: SeaMonkey Heap Overflow Addressed
opensuse
October 2, 2023
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available
Description
This update for seamonkey fixes the following issues:
update to SeaMonkey 2.53.17.1
* Upstream libwebp security fix bug 1852749.
* CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in libwebp bug 1852649.
* Fix bad string encoded in ansi. l10n fr problem only bug 1847887.
* SeaMonkey 2.53.17 uses the same backend as Firefox and contains the
relevant Firefox 60.8 security fixes.
* SeaMonkey 2.53.17 shares most parts of the mail and news code with
Thunderbird. Please read the Thunderbird 60.8.0 release notes for
specific security fixes in this release.
* Additional important security fixes up to Current Firefox 115.3 and
Thunderbird 115.3 ESR plus many enhancements have been backported. We
will continue to enhance SeaMonkey security in subsequent 2.53.x beta
and release versions as fast as we are able to.
update to SeaMonkey 2.53.17
* Fix macOS Contacts permission request bug 1826719.
* Remove SeaMonkey...
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Topics Covered
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2023-278=1
Package List
- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (aarch64 x86_64):
seamonkey-2.53.17.1-bp155.2.3.1
seamonkey-dom-inspector-2.53.17.1-bp155.2.3.1
seamonkey-irc-2.53.17.1-bp155.2.3.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4863.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1207332
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1209994
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213986
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2023:0278-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5
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