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Red Hat Enterprise: RHSA-2009-0437-02 Critical SeaMonkey DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important security patch for SeaMonkey resolves various vulnerabilities on Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 2.1, 3, and 4.
Updated seamonkey packages that fix several 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-2009-1303, CVE-2009-1305)
Several flaws were found in the way malformed web content was processed. A web page containing malicious content could execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of the site, possibly presenting misleading data to a user, or stealing sensitive information such as login credentials. (CVE-2009-0652, CVE-2009-1306, CVE-2009-1307, CVE-2009-1309, CVE-2009-1312)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey saved certain web pages to a local file. If a user saved the inner frame of a web page containing POST data, the POST data could be revealed to the inner frame, possibly surrendering sensitive information such as login credentials. (CVE-2009-1311)
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

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References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0652 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1303 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1305 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1306 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1307 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1309 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1311 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1312 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 :
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.33.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.33.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.33.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.33.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.33.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.33.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.33.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.33.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.33.el2.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.33.el2.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:
Source:
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.33.el2.ia64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0437-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0437.html
Issue date: 2009-04-21

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are nowavailable for Red 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 issue update critical DoS Red Hat Enterprise 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

486704 - CVE-2009-0652 firefox: does not properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names (spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks)

496253 - CVE-2009-1303 Firefox 2 and 3 Layout engine crash

496256 - CVE-2009-1305 Firefox 2 and 3 JavaScript engine crash

496262 - CVE-2009-1306 Firefox jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI

496263 - CVE-2009-1307 Firefox Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: protocol

496267 - CVE-2009-1309 Firefox Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString

496271 - CVE-2009-1311 Firefox POST data sent to wrong site when saving web page with embedded frame

496274 - CVE-2009-1312 Firefox allows Refresh header to redirect to javascript: URIs

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