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Scientific Linux: CVE-2010-2760 Critical Buffer Overflow in SeaMonkey

Scientific Large Esm H446
Critical: seamonkey security update
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:45:37 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: seamonkey on SL3.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Critical: seamonkey security update
Issue date:	2010-09-07
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-2760 CVE-2010-2765 CVE-2010-2767
 CVE-2010-2768 CVE-2010-3167 CVE-2010-3168
 CVE-2010-3169

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-2010-3169)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in SeaMonkey. 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-2010-2765)

A use-after-free flaw and several dangling pointer flaws were found in
SeaMonkey. 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-2010-2760, CVE-2010-2767,
CVE-2010-3167, CVE-2010-3168)

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in SeaMonkey. A web page
containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to run JavaScript
code with the permissions of a different website. (CVE-2010-2768)

After installing the update, SeaMonkey must be restarted for the changes
to take effect.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
seamonkey-1.0.9-0.60.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
seamonkey-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm

 x86_64:
seamonkey-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-1.0.9-0.60.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.60.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.60.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.60.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.60.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.60.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.60.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.60.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.60.el3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
seamonkey-1.0.9-63.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
seamonkey-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm
seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm
seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm
seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm
seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm

 x86_64:
seamonkey-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm
seamonkey-1.0.9-63.el4.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm
seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-63.el4.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-63.el4.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-63.el4.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm
seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-63.el4.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-63.el4.i386.rpm
seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-63.el4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson