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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2009-0325 Critical: SeaMonkey Security Risk

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical's urgent notification regarding Firefox highlights significant vulnerabilities that could allow the execution of harmful scripts. Users are encouraged to upgrade immediately.
Updated seamonkey packages that fix security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4

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-2009-0040, CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0774, CVE-2009-0775)
A flaw was found in the way malformed content was processed. A website containing specially-crafted content could, potentially, trick a SeaMonkey user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2009-0776)
All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches that 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 security update Red Hat critical software patch malicious content seamonkey

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0040 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0772 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0774 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0775 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0776 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 :
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.30.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.30.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.30.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.30.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.30.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.30.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.30.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:
Source:
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.ia64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0325-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0325.html
Issue date: 2009-03-04

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix security issues are now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4.This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat critical software patch malicious content seamonkey

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

486355 - CVE-2009-0040 libpng arbitrary free() flaw

488273 - CVE-2009-0772 Firefox 2 and 3 - Layout engine crashes

488283 - CVE-2009-0774 Firefox 2 and 3 crashes in the JavaScript engine

488287 - CVE-2009-0775 Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability

488290 - CVE-2009-0776 Firefox XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect

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