Synopsis
Critical: seamonkey security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Critical
Topic
Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.
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 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)
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.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.8 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.8 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.8 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.8 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.8 s390
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 4.8 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 630055 - CVE-2010-3169 Mozilla Miscellaneous memory safety hazards
- BZ - 630056 - CVE-2010-2765 Mozilla Frameset integer overflow vulnerability (MFSA 2010-50)
- BZ - 630059 - CVE-2010-2767 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability using DOM plugin array (MFSA 2010-51)
- BZ - 630062 - CVE-2010-2760 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeSelection (MFSA 2010-54)
- BZ - 630064 - CVE-2010-3168 Mozilla XUL tree removal crash and remote code execution (MFSA 2010-55)
- BZ - 630067 - CVE-2010-3167 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeContentView (MFSA 2010-56)
- BZ - 630074 - CVE-2010-2768 Mozilla UTF-7 XSS by overriding document charset using <object> type attribute (MFSA 2010-61)
CVEs
References
Vulmon