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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4: Critical SeaMonkey Threat Advisory

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Calendar Grey October 19, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Enhanced SeaMonkey distributions address severe vulnerabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3 and 4. Prompt response necessary!
Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the 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-2010-3176, CVE-2010-3180)
A flaw was found in the way the Gopher parser in SeaMonkey converted text into HTML. A malformed file name on a Gopher server could, when accessed by a victim running SeaMonkey, allow arbitrary JavaScript to be executed in the context of the Gopher domain. (CVE-2010-3177)
A flaw was found in the script that launches SeaMonkey. The LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable was appending a "." character, which could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a different user running SeaMonkey, if that user ran SeaMonkey from within an attacker-controlled directory. (CVE-2010-3182)
It was found that the SSL DHE (Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral) mode implementation for key exchanges in SeaMonkey accepted DHE keys that were 256 bits in length. This update removes support for 256 bit DHE keys, as such keys are easily broken using modern hardware. (CVE-2010-3173)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey matched SSL certificates when the certificates had a Common Name containing a wildcard and a partial IP address. SeaMonkey incorrectly accepted connections to IP addresses that fell within the SSL certificate's wildcard range as valid SSL connections, possibly allowing an attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2010-3170)
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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3170 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3173 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3176 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3177 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3180 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3182 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.61.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ia64.rpm
ppc: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.61.el3.ppc.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0781-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2010-10-19

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64

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 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

630047 - CVE-2010-3170 firefox/nss: Doesn't handle wildcards in Common Name properly

642272 - CVE-2010-3176 Mozilla miscellaneous memory safety hazards

642283 - CVE-2010-3180 Mozilla use-after-free error in nsBarProp

642290 - CVE-2010-3177 Mozilla XSS in gopher parser when parsing hrefs

642300 - CVE-2010-3182 Mozilla unsafe library loading flaw

642302 - CVE-2010-3173 Mozilla insecure Diffie-Hellman key exchange

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