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Red Hat: RHSA-2008:0882-01 Critical: SeamMonkey Security Flaws

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest alert from Red Hat regarding SeamMonkey highlights numerous vulnerabilities with potentially grave consequences. Update to safeguard your infrastructure.
Updated seamonkey packages that fix a security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update ...

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, advanced 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-2008-0016, CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062)
Several flaws were found in the way malformed web content was displayed. A web page containing specially crafted content could potentially trick a SeaMonkey user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-3835, CVE-2008-4067, CVE-2008-4068, CVE-2008-4069)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handles mouse click events. A web page containing specially crafted JavaScript code could move the content window while a mouse-button was pressed, causing any item under the pointer to be dragged. This could, potentially, cause the user to perform an unsafe drag-and-drop action. (CVE-2008-3837)
A flaw was found in SeaMonkey that caused certain characters to be stripped from JavaScript code. This flaw could allow malicious JavaScript to bypass or evade script filters. (CVE-2008-4065, CVE-2008-4066)
All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux seamonkey flaw

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0016 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3835 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3837 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4058 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4059 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4060 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4061 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4062 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4065 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4066 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4067 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4068 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4069

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 :
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.20.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.20.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.20.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.20.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.20.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.20.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.20.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.20.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.20.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.20.el2.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:
Source:
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.20.el2.ia64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0882-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0882.html
Issue date: 2008-09-23

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix a security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux seamonkey flaw

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 - i386, ia64

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 - ia64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 - i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 - i386

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

463181 - CVE-2008-0016 Mozilla UTF-8 stack buffer overflow

463182 - CVE-2008-3835 nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation

463189 - CVE-2008-3837 Forced mouse drag

463190 - CVE-2008-4058 Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution

463192 - CVE-2008-4059 Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution

463198 - CVE-2008-4060 Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution

463199 - CVE-2008-4061 Mozilla layout engine crash

463201 - CVE-2008-4062 Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption

463234 - CVE-2008-4065 Mozilla BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution

463243 - CVE-2008-4066 Mozilla low surrogates stripped from JavaScript before execution

463246 - CVE-2008-4067 Mozilla resource: traversal vulnerability

463248 - CVE-2008-4068 Mozilla local HTML file recource: bypass

463251 - CVE-2008-4069 Mozilla XBM decoder information disclosure

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