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Red Hat: RHSA-2009:1673-01 Critical: SeaMonkey DoS and Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important Firefox security update released for Ubuntu Server. Update now to avoid potential vulnerabilities.
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.
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-2009-3979)
A flaw was found in the SeaMonkey NT Lan Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol implementation. If an attacker could trick a local user that has NTLM credentials into visiting a specially-crafted web page, they could send arbitrary requests, authenticated with the user's NTLM credentials, to other applications on the user's system. (CVE-2009-3983)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displayed the SSL location bar indicator. An attacker could create an unencrypted web page that appearsto be encrypted, possibly tricking the user into believing they are visiting a secure page. (CVE-2009-3984)
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 Red Hat critical DoS memory corruption seamonkey Web browser

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-3979 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-3983 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-3984 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm
ia64: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.48.el3.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ia64.rpm
ppc: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-debuginfo-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ppc.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.48.el3.ppc.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1673-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1673.html
Issue date: 2009-12-15

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 critical DoS memory corruption seamonkey Web browser

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

546694 - CVE-2009-3979 Mozilla crash with evidence of memory corruption

546720 - CVE-2009-3983 Mozilla NTLM reflection vulnerability

546722 - CVE-2009-3984 Mozilla SSL spoofing with document.location and empty SSL response page

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