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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3: RHSA-2009:1432-01 SeaMonkey Critical Security Risks

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has released an updated version of SeaMonkey, addressing serious vulnerabilities. Users are urged to upgrade promptly to enhance their security
Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the ...

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 with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-3072, CVE-2009-3075)
A use-after-free flaw was found in SeaMonkey. An attacker could use this flaw to crash SeaMonkey or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-3077)
Dan Kaminsky discovered flaws in the way browsers such as SeaMonkey handle NULL characters in a certificate. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a Certificate Authority trusted by SeaMonkey, the attacker could use the certificate during a man-in-the-middle attack and potentially confuse SeaMonkey into accepting it by mistake. (CVE-2009-2408)
Descriptions in the dialogs when adding and removing PKCS #11 modules were not informative. An attacker able to trick a user into installing a malicious PKCS #11 module could use this flaw to install their own Certificate Authority certificates on a user's machine, making it possible to trick the user into believing they are viewing a trusted site or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-3076)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displays the address bar when window.open() is called in a certain way. An attacker could use this flaw to conceal a malicious URL, possibly tricking a user into believing they are viewing a trusted site. (CVE-2009-2654)
Dan Kaminsky found that browsers still accept certificates with MD2 hash signatures, even though MD2 is no longer considered a cryptographically strong algorithm. This could make it easier for an attacker to create a malicious certificate that would be treated as trusted by a browser. NSS (provided by SeaMonkey) now disables the use of MD2 and MD4 algorithms inside signatures by default. (CVE-2009-2409)
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.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2408 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2409 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2654 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3072 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3075 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3076 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3077 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.45.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ia64.rpm
ppc: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.45.el3.ppc.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1432-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2009-09-09

Topic

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

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

Bugs Fixed

510197 - CVE-2009-2409 deprecate MD2 in SSL cert validation (Kaminsky)

510251 - CVE-2009-2408 firefox/nss: doesn't handle NULL in Common Name properly

521311 - CVE-2009-2654 firefox: URL bar spoofing vulnerability

521688 - CVE-2009-3072 Firefox 3.5.3 3.0.14 browser engine crashes

521691 - CVE-2009-3075 Firefox 3.5.2 3.0.14 JavaScript engine crashes

521692 - CVE-2009-3076 Firefox 3.0.14 Insufficient warning for PKCS11 module installation and removal

521693 - CVE-2009-3077 Firefox 3.5.3 3.0.14 TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability

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