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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: RHSA-2011-0473-01 Critical SeaMonkey Threat

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Calendar Grey April 29, 2011
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important SeaMonkey security patch resolves multiple vulnerabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Update immediately for protection!
Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

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 possibly lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2011-0080)
An arbitrary memory write flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled out-of-memory conditions. If all memory was consumed when a user visited a malicious web page, it could possibly lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2011-0078)
An integer overflow flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled the HTML frameset tag. A web page with a frameset tag containing large values for the "rows" and "cols" attributes could trigger this flaw, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2011-0077)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled the HTML iframe tag. A web page with an iframe tag containing a specially-crafted source address could trigger this flaw, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2011-0075)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displayed multiple marquee elements. A malformed HTML document could cause SeaMonkey to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2011-0074)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled the nsTreeSelection element. Malformed content could cause SeaMonkey to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2011-0073)
A use-after-free flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey appended frame and iframe elements to a DOM tree when the NoScript add-on was enabled. Malicious HTML content could cause SeaMonkey to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2011-0072)
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

security advisory critical software update arbitrary code execution security impact red hat enterprise seamonkey

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0072 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0073 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0074 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0075 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0077 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0078 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0080 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-70.el4_8.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-70.el4_8.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-70.el4_8.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-70.el4_8.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-70.el4_8.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-70.el4_8.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-70.el4_8.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ia64.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ia64.rpm
ppc: seamonkey-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ppc.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ppc.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ppc.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ppc.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ppc.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ppc.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-70.el4_8.ppc.rpm
s390: seamonkey-1.0.9-70.el4_8.s390.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-70.el4_8.s390.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-70.el4_8.s390.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-70.el4_8.s390.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-70.el4_8.s390.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-70.el4_8.s390.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-70.el4_8.s390.rpm
s390x: seamonkey-1.0.9-70.el4_8.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2011:0473-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0473.html
Issue date: 2011-04-28

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update arbitrary code execution security impact red hat enterprise seamonkey

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

700603 - CVE-2011-0078 Mozilla OOM condition arbitrary memory write (MFSA 2011-12)

700613 - CVE-2011-0077 Mozilla integer overflow in frameset spec (MFSA 2011-12)

700615 - CVE-2011-0075 Mozilla crash from bad iframe source (MFSA 2011-12)

700617 - CVE-2011-0074 Mozilla crash from several marquee elements (MFSA 2011-12)

700619 - CVE-2011-0073 Mozilla dangling pointer flaw (MFSA 2011-13)

700622 - CVE-2011-0072 Mozilla use after free flaw (MFSA 2011-12)

700677 - CVE-2011-0080 Mozilla memory safety issue (MFSA 2011-12)

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