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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2010:0499-01 Critical: SeaMonkey Issues

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Red Hat has issued critical patches for multiple security vulnerabilities in SeaMonkey. Users must upgrade promptly to avert potential threats
Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

SeaMonkey is an open source web browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2010-1200)
A flaw was found in the way browser plug-ins interact. It was possible for a plug-in to reference the freed memory from a different plug-in, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2010-1198)
An integer overflow flaw was found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2010-1199)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey processed mail attachments. A specially-crafted mail message could cause SeaMonkey to crash. (CVE-2010-0163)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled the "Content-Disposition: attachment" HTTP header when the "Content-Type: multipart" HTTP header was also present. A website that allows arbitrary uploads and relies on the "Content-Disposition: attachment" HTTP header to prevent content from being displayed inline, could be used by an attacker to serve malicious content to users. (CVE-2010-1197)
All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. After installing the update, SeaMonkey must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0163 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1197 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1198 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1199 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1200 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.55.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ia64.rpm
ppc: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.55.el3.ppc.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0499-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2010-06-22

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

576391 - CVE-2010-0163 seamonkey/thunderbird: crash when indexing certain messages with attachments

590804 - CVE-2010-1200 Mozilla Crashes with evidence of memory corruption

590828 - CVE-2010-1198 Mozilla Freed object reuse across plugin instances

590833 - CVE-2010-1199 Mozilla Integer Overflow in XSLT Node Sorting

590850 - CVE-2010-1197 Mozilla Content-Disposition: attachment ignored if Content-Type: multipart also present

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