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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2010:0557-01 Critical: Seamonkey Exploit

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Stay informed about a critical Seamokey vulnerability affecting Red Hat Linux systems, urging users to apply updates and enhance security practices
Updated seamonkey packages that fix a security issue 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.
An invalid free flaw was found in SeaMonkey's plugin handler. Malicious web content could result in an invalid memory pointer being freed, causing SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2010-2755)
All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. After installing the update, SeaMonkey must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat critical exploit seamonkey

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2755 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.58.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ia64.rpm
ppc: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.58.el3.ppc.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0557-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0557.html
Issue date: 2010-07-23

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix a security issue 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 update red hat critical exploit seamonkey

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

617657 - CVE-2010-2755 Mozilla arbitrary free flaw

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