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Red Hat: RHSA-2009:0398-01 Critical: SeaMonkey Remote Execution

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Tackling essential SeaMonkey concerns for Red Hat by implementing updates aimed at enhancing security and efficiency.
Updated seamonkey packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impac...

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.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way SeaMonkey handles XML files containing an XSLT transform. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash SeaMonkey or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-1169)
A flaw was discovered in the way SeaMonkey handles certain XUL garbage collection events. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash SeaMonkey or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-1044)
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 critical software update memory corruption remote execution sea monkey

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1044 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1169 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 :
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.32.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.32.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.32.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.32.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.32.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.32.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.32.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.32.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.32.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.32.el2.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:
Source:
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.32.el2.ia64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0398-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0398.html
Issue date: 2009-03-27

Topic

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

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat critical software update memory corruption remote execution sea monkey

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64

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

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 2.1 - i386

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 2.1 - i386

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

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

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 - ia64

Bugs Fixed

492211 - CVE-2009-1169 Firefox XSLT memory corruption issue

492212 - CVE-2009-1044 Firefox XUL garbage collection issue (cansecwest pwn2own)

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