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Red Hat: RHSA-2008:0977-01 Critical: Seamonkey Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An urgent security update for SeaMonkey addresses vulnerabilities affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 to 4, demanding immediate action from system administrators to safeguard systems
Updated seamonkey packages that fix 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 ha...

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-2008-0017, CVE-2008-5013, CVE-2008-5014, CVE-2008-5016, CVE-2008-5017, CVE-2008-5018, CVE-2008-5019, CVE-2008-5021)
Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A web site containing specially-crafted content could potentially trick a SeaMonkey user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-5012, CVE-2008-5022, CVE-2008-5023, CVE-2008-5024)
All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

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security advisory security issue update critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux arbitrary code seamonkey

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0017 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5012 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5013 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5014 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5016 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5017 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5018 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5019 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5021 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5022 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5023 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5024

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 :
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.21.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.21.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.21.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.21.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.21.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.21.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.21.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.21.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.21.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.21.el2.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:
Source:
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.21.el2.ia64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0977-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0977.html
Issue date: 2008-11-12

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix 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 security issue update critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux arbitrary code seamonkey

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

470864 - CVE-2008-5012 Mozilla Image stealing via canvas and HTTP redirect

470867 - CVE-2008-5013 Mozilla Flash Player dynamic module unloading flaw

470873 - CVE-2008-5014 Mozilla crash and remote code execution via __proto__ tampering

470881 - CVE-2008-5016 Mozilla crash with evidence of memory corruption

470883 - CVE-2008-5017 Mozilla crash with evidence of memory corruption

470884 - CVE-2008-5018 Mozilla crash with evidence of memory corruption

470889 - CVE-2008-5019 Mozilla XSS via session restore

470892 - CVE-2008-0017 Mozilla buffer overflow in http-index-format parser

470894 - CVE-2008-5021 Mozilla crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManager

470895 - CVE-2008-5022 Mozilla nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() same-origin violation

470898 - CVE-2008-5023 Mozilla -moz-binding property bypasses security checks on codebase principals

470902 - CVE-2008-5024 Mozilla parsing error in E4X default namespace

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