Critical: seamonkey security update

Synopsis

Critical: seamonkey security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix security issues are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Description

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 as the user running SeaMonkey.
(CVE-2008-0017, CVE-2008-5013, CVE-2008-5014, CVE-2008-5016,
CVE-2008-5017, CVE-2008-5018, CVE-2008-5019, CVE-2008-5021)

Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A web
site containing specially-crafted content could potentially trick a
SeaMonkey user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-5012,
CVE-2008-5022, CVE-2008-5023, CVE-2008-5024)

All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to resolve these issues.

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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 2 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 2 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.7 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.7 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 2 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 2 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.7 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 4.7 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 470864 - CVE-2008-5012 Mozilla Image stealing via canvas and HTTP redirect
• BZ - 470867 - EMBARGOED CVE-2008-5013 Mozilla Flash Player dynamic module unloading flaw
• BZ - 470873 - CVE-2008-5014 Mozilla crash and remote code execution via __proto__ tampering
• BZ - 470881 - CVE-2008-5016 Mozilla crash with evidence of memory corruption
• BZ - 470883 - CVE-2008-5017 Mozilla crash with evidence of memory corruption
• BZ - 470884 - CVE-2008-5018 Mozilla crash with evidence of memory corruption
• BZ - 470889 - CVE-2008-5019 Mozilla XSS via session restore
• BZ - 470892 - CVE-2008-0017 Mozilla buffer overflow in http-index-format parser
• BZ - 470894 - CVE-2008-5021 Mozilla crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManager
• BZ - 470895 - CVE-2008-5022 Mozilla nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() same-origin violation
• BZ - 470898 - CVE-2008-5023 Mozilla -moz-binding property bypasses security checks on codebase principals
• BZ - 470902 - CVE-2008-5024 Mozilla parsing error in E4X default namespace

CVEs

• CVE-2008-5052
• CVE-2008-5024
• CVE-2008-5023
• CVE-2008-5022
• CVE-2008-5021
• CVE-2008-5018
• CVE-2008-5019
• CVE-2008-5016
• CVE-2008-5017
• CVE-2008-5014
• CVE-2008-5012
• CVE-2008-5013
• CVE-2008-0017

References

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