Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20060609
Revision Date:2006-08-02Version:642
Title:RHSA-2006:0609: seamonkey security update (Critical)
Description:Seamonkey is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor.

The Mozilla Foundation has discontinued support for the Mozilla Suite. This update deprecates the Mozilla Suite in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in favor of the supported Seamonkey Suite.

This update also resolves a number of outstanding Mozilla security issues:

  • Several flaws were found in the way Seamonkey processed certain javascript actions. A malicious web page could execute arbitrary javascript instructions with the permissions of "chrome", allowing the page to steal sensitive information or install browser malware. (CVE-2006-2776, CVE-2006-2784, CVE-2006-2785, CVE-2006-2787, CVE-2006-3807, CVE-2006-3809, CVE-2006-3812)

  • Several denial of service flaws were found in the way Seamonkey processed certain web content. A malicious web page could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Seamonkey. (CVE-2006-2779, CVE-2006-2780, CVE-2006-3801, CVE-2006-3677, CVE-2006-3113, CVE-2006-3803, CVE-2006-3805, CVE-2006-3806, CVE-2006-3811)

  • Two flaws were found in the way Seamonkey-mail displayed malformed inline vcard attachments. If a victim viewed an email message containing a carefully crafted vcard it was possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running Mozilla-mail. (CVE-2006-2781, CVE-2006-3804)

  • A cross-site scripting flaw was found in the way Seamonkey processed Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) markers in UTF-8 web pages. A malicious web page could execute a script within the browser that a web input sanitizer could miss due to a malformed "script" tag. (CVE-2006-2783)

  • Several flaws were found in the way Seamonkey processed certain javascript actions. A malicious web page could conduct a cross-site scripting attack or steal sensitive information (such as cookies owned by other domains). (CVE-2006-3802, CVE-2006-3810)

  • A form file upload flaw was found in the way Seamonkey handled javascript input object mutation. A malicious web page could upload an arbitrary local file at form submission time without user interaction. (CVE-2006-2782)

  • A denial of service flaw was found in the way Seamonkey called the crypto.signText() javascript function. A malicious web page could crash the browser if the victim had a client certificate loaded. (CVE-2006-2778)

  • Two HTTP response smuggling flaws were found in the way Seamonkey processed certain invalid HTTP response headers. A malicious web site could return specially crafted HTTP response headers which may bypass HTTP proxy restrictions. (CVE-2006-2786)

  • A flaw was found in the way Seamonkey processed Proxy AutoConfig scripts. A malicious Proxy AutoConfig server could execute arbitrary javascript instructions with the permissions of "chrome", allowing the page to steal sensitive information or install browser malware. (CVE-2006-3808)

  • A double free flaw was found in the way the nsIX509::getRawDER method was called. If a victim visited a carefully crafted web page, it was possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running Mozilla. (CVE-2006-2788)

    Users of Mozilla are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains Seamonkey version 1.0.3 that corrects these issues.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2006-2776
    CVE-2006-2778
    CVE-2006-2779
    CVE-2006-2780
    CVE-2006-2781
    CVE-2006-2782
    CVE-2006-2783
    CVE-2006-2784
    CVE-2006-2785
    CVE-2006-2786
    CVE-2006-2787
    CVE-2006-2788
    CVE-2006-3113
    CVE-2006-3677
    CVE-2006-3801
    CVE-2006-3802
    CVE-2006-3803
    CVE-2006-3804
    CVE-2006-3805
    CVE-2006-3806
    CVE-2006-3807
    CVE-2006-3808
    CVE-2006-3809
    CVE-2006-3810
    CVE-2006-3811
    CVE-2006-3812
    RHSA-2006:0609
    RHSA-2006:0609-01
    RHSA-2006:0609-01
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is installed
  • AND
  • seamonkey is earlier than 0:1.0.3-0.el4.1
  • AND seamonkey is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • seamonkey-chat is earlier than 0:1.0.3-0.el4.1
  • AND seamonkey-chat is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • seamonkey-devel is earlier than 0:1.0.3-0.el4.1
  • AND seamonkey-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • seamonkey-dom-inspector is earlier than 0:1.0.3-0.el4.1
  • AND seamonkey-dom-inspector is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • seamonkey-js-debugger is earlier than 0:1.0.3-0.el4.1
  • AND seamonkey-js-debugger is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • seamonkey-mail is earlier than 0:1.0.3-0.el4.1
  • AND seamonkey-mail is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • devhelp is earlier than 0:0.10-0.2.el4
  • AND devhelp is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • devhelp-devel is earlier than 0:0.10-0.2.el4
  • AND devhelp-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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