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Critical Alert: Malicious Content in SeaMonkey for Red Hat Linux 3/4

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important security patch for SeaMonkey tackles multiple vulnerabilities affecting users on Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3 and 4. Further information within.
Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact b...

Solution

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

This update is available via 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 as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-1392, CVE-2009-1833, CVE-2009-1838, CVE-2009-1841)
A flaw was found in the processing of malformed, local file content. If a user loaded malicious, local content via the file:// URL, it was possible for that content to access other local data. (CVE-2009-1835)
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 critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux malicious content seamonkey

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1392 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1833 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1835 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1838 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1841 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.38.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ia64.rpm
ppc: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.38.el3.ppc.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1096-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1096.html
Issue date: 2009-06-11

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux malicious content seamonkey

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, 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 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

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

Bugs Fixed

503568 - CVE-2009-1392 Firefox browser engine crashes

503570 - CVE-2009-1833 Firefox JavaScript engine crashes

503576 - CVE-2009-1835 Firefox Arbitrary domain cookie access by local file: resources

503580 - CVE-2009-1838 Firefox arbitrary code execution flaw

503583 - CVE-2009-1841 Firefox JavaScript arbitrary code execution

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