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SciLinux SL4: Critical SeaMonkey Update CVE-2009-2462, Crash Risk

Calendar Jul 23, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory denial of service security issue critical seamonkey scientific linux
Critical: seamonkey security update 
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:28:05 -0500
Reply-To: Connie Sieh 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: seamonkey on SL4.x i386/x86_64 (fwd)
Comments: To: scientific 

Synopsis: Critical: seamonkey security update
CVE: CVE-2009-2462 Mozilla Browser engine crashes
 CVE-2009-2463 Mozilla Base64 decoding crash
 CVE-2009-2466 Mozilla JavaScript engine crashes

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.

SRPM

 seamonkey-1.0.9-45.el4_8.src.rpm

SL4.x

i386:

 seamonkey-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm
 seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm
 seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm
 seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm
 seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm
 seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm

x86_64:

 seamonkey-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm
 seamonkey-1.0.9-45.el4_8.x86_64.rpm
 seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm
 seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-45.el4_8.x86_64.rpm
 seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-45.el4_8.x86_64.rpm
 seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm
 seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-45.el4_8.x86_64.rpm
 seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm
 seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-45.el4_8.x86_64.rpm
 seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-45.el4_8.i386.rpm
 seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-45.el4_8.x86_64.rpm

--Connie Sieh
--Troy Dawson