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Red Hat: RHSA-2008:0599-01 Critical: SeaMonkey Integer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Urgent patch released for SeaMonkey on Red Hat addressing an integer overflow vulnerability to safeguard system integrity.
Updated seamonkey packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact b...

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.
An integer overflow flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displayed certain web content. A malicious web site could cause SeaMonkey to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2008-2785)
All seamonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat critical update integer overflow SeaMonkey

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2785 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 :
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.18.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.18.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.18.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.18.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.18.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.18.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.18.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.18.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.18.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.18.el2.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:
Source:
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.18.el2.ia64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0599-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0599.html
Issue date: 2008-07-16

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix a security issue 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 update integer overflow 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

452204 - CVE-2008-2785 mozilla: CSS reference counter overflow (ZDI-CAN-349)

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