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Ubuntu Security Notice: USN-1234-1 Severe: SeaMonkey Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Urgent patches address major vulnerabilities in Red Hat's SeaMonkey, safeguarding users from potential hacking threats.
Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor.
A use-after-free flaw was found in SeaMonkey. Under low memory conditions, visiting a web page containing malicious content could result in SeaMonkey executing arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-1571)
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-2010-0159)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux memory flaw DoS threat exploits critical impact SeaMonkey update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1571 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0159 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.50.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ia64.rpm
ppc: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.50.el3.ppc.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0113-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0113.html
Issue date: 2010-02-17

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux memory flaw DoS threat exploits critical impact SeaMonkey update

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

566047 - CVE-2010-0159 Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2010-01)

566050 - CVE-2009-1571 Mozilla incorrectly frees used memory (MFSA 2010-03)

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