Description: | SeaMonkey is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor.
Several flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey processes certain malformed Javascript code. A malicious web page could cause the execution of Javascript code in such a way that could cause SeaMonkey to crash or execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2006-6498, CVE-2006-6501, CVE-2006-6502, CVE-2006-6503, CVE-2006-6504)
Several flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey renders web pages. A malicious web page could cause the browser to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2006-6497)
A heap based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey Mail parses the Content-Type mail header. A malicious mail message could cause the SeaMonkey Mail client to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey Mail. (CVE-2006-6505)
Users of SeaMonkey are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which contain SeaMonkey version 1.0.7 that corrects these issues.
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