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Red Hat: RHSA-2008:0547-01 Critical: SeaMonkey Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Immediate Action Required: Upgrade SeaMonkey to safeguard against severe vulnerabilities that may allow harmful code execution or cause browser instability.
This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content

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.
Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed JavaScript content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2008-2801, CVE-2008-2802, CVE-2008-2803)
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-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2811)
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-2008-2800)
Two local file disclosure flaws were found in SeaMonkey. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to reveal the contents of a local file to a remote attacker. (CVE-2008-2805, CVE-2008-2810)
A flaw was found in the way a malformed .properties file was processed by SeaMonkey. A malicious extension could read uninitialized memory, possibly leaking sensitive data to the extension. (CVE-2008-2807)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey escaped a listing of local file names. If a user could be tricked into listing a local directory containing malicious file names, arbitrary JavaScript could be run with the permissions of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2008-2808)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displayed information about self-signed certificates. It was possible for a self-signed certificate to contain multiple alternate name entries, which were not all displayed to the user, allowing them to mistakenly extend trust to an unknown site. (CVE-2008-2809)
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 red hat software update code execution malicious content seamonkey critical impact

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2798 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2799 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2800 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2801 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2802 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2803 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2805 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2807 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2808 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2809 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2810 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2811 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 :
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.17.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.17.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.17.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.17.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.17.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.17.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.17.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el2.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:
Source:
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.17.el2.ia64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0547-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0547.html
Issue date: 2008-07-02

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 red hat software update code execution malicious content seamonkey critical impact

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

452597 - CVE-2008-2798 Firefox malformed web content flaws

452598 - CVE-2008-2799 Firefox javascript arbitrary code execution

452599 - CVE-2008-2800 Firefox XSS attacks

452600 - CVE-2008-2802 Firefox arbitrary JavaScript code execution

452602 - CVE-2008-2803 Firefox javascript arbitrary code execution

452604 - CVE-2008-2805 Firefox arbitrary file disclosure

452605 - CVE-2008-2801 Firefox arbitrary signed JAR code execution

452709 - CVE-2008-2807 Firefox .properties memory leak

452710 - CVE-2008-2808 Firefox file location escaping flaw

452711 - CVE-2008-2809 Firefox self signed certificate flaw

452712 - CVE-2008-2810 Firefox arbitrary file disclosure

453007 - CVE-2008-2811 Firefox block reflow flaw

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