Explore top 10 tips to secure your open-source projects now. Read More

×
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 452
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 452

Red Hat Ent Linux 3 & 4: RHSA-2010:0546-01 Critical SeaMonkey Exploits

red hat
Calendar Grey July 20, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Critical: seamonkey security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0546-
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-2010-1211, CVE-2010-2753, CVE-2010-1214)
A memory corruption flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey decoded certain PNG images. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PNG image that, when opened, could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2010-1205)
A same-origin policy bypass flaw was found in SeaMonkey. An attacker could create a malicious web page that, when viewed by a victim, could steal private data from a different website the victim has loaded with SeaMonkey. (CVE-2010-2754)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displayed the location bar when visiting a secure web page. A malicious server could use this flaw to present data that appears to originate from a secure server, even though it does not. (CVE-2010-2751)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory red hat critical update seamonkey memory exploit

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1205 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1211 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1214 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2751 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2753 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2754 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.57.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ia64.rpm
ppc: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.57.el3.ppc.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0546-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0546.html
Issue date: 2010-07-20

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory red hat critical update seamonkey memory exploit

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

608238 - CVE-2010-1205 libpng: out-of-bounds memory write

615455 - CVE-2010-1211 Mozilla miscellaneous memory safety hazards

615462 - CVE-2010-1214 Mozilla Plugin parameter EnsureCachedAttrParamArrays remote code execution vulnerability

615466 - CVE-2010-2753 Mozilla nsTreeSelection dangling pointer remote code execution vulnerability

615480 - CVE-2010-2751 Mozilla SSL spoofing with history.back() and history.forward()

615488 - CVE-2010-2754 Mozilla Cross-origin data leakage from script filename in error messages

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.