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Red Hat: RHSA-2010:0680-01 Critical: SeaMonkey Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The Ubuntu team released an urgent patch for Thunderbird, tackling several vulnerabilities to strengthen user protection.
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-2010-3169)
A buffer overflow flaw was found in SeaMonkey. 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-2010-2765)
A use-after-free flaw and several dangling pointer flaws were found in SeaMonkey. 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-2010-2760, CVE-2010-2767, CVE-2010-3167, CVE-2010-3168)
A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in SeaMonkey. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to run JavaScript code with the permissions of a different website. (CVE-2010-2768)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow critical web browser malicious content memory safety

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2760 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2765 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2767 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2768 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3167 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3168 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3169 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ia64.rpm
ppc: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.ppc.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0680-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0680.html
Issue date: 2010-09-07

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow critical web browser malicious content memory safety

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

630055 - CVE-2010-3169 Mozilla Miscellaneous memory safety hazards

630056 - CVE-2010-2765 Mozilla Frameset integer overflow vulnerability (MFSA 2010-50)

630059 - CVE-2010-2767 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability using DOM plugin array (MFSA 2010-51)

630062 - CVE-2010-2760 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeSelection (MFSA 2010-54)

630064 - CVE-2010-3168 Mozilla XUL tree removal crash and remote code execution (MFSA 2010-55)

630067 - CVE-2010-3167 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeContentView (MFSA 2010-56)

630074 - CVE-2010-2768 Mozilla UTF-7 XSS by overriding document charset using type attribute (MFSA 2010-61)

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