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| From: | Raphael Marichez <falco@g.o> |
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| Subject: | [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200610-04 ] Seamonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:09:31 |
| Message-Id: | 20061016092600.GB24779@falco.falcal.net |
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| 2 | Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200610-04 |
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| 4 | http://security.gentoo.org/ |
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| 6 | |
| 7 | Severity: Normal |
| 8 | Title: Seamonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities |
| 9 | Date: October 16, 2006 |
| 10 | Bugs: #147651 |
| 11 | ID: 200610-04 |
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| 14 | |
| 15 | Synopsis |
| 16 | ======== |
| 17 | |
| 18 | The Seamonkey project has reported multiple security vulnerabilities in |
| 19 | the application. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Background |
| 22 | ========== |
| 23 | |
| 24 | The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver |
| 25 | production-quality releases of code derived from the application |
| 26 | formerly known as 'Mozilla Application Suite'. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Affected packages |
| 29 | ================= |
| 30 | |
| 31 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 32 | Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
| 33 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 34 | 1 www-client/seamonkey < 1.0.5 >= 1.0.5 |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Description |
| 37 | =========== |
| 38 | |
| 39 | A number of vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in Seamonkey. For |
| 40 | details please consult the references below. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | Impact |
| 43 | ====== |
| 44 | |
| 45 | The most severe vulnerability involves enticing a user to visit a |
| 46 | malicious website, crashing the application and executing arbitrary |
| 47 | code with the rights of the user running Seamonkey. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | Workaround |
| 50 | ========== |
| 51 | |
| 52 | There is no known workaround at this time. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | Resolution |
| 55 | ========== |
| 56 | |
| 57 | All Seamonkey users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| 58 | |
| 59 | # emerge --sync |
| 60 | # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-1.0.5" |
| 61 | |
| 62 | References |
| 63 | ========== |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [ 1 ] CVE-2006-4253 |
| 66 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4253 |
| 67 | [ 2 ] CVE-2006-4565 |
| 68 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4565 |
| 69 | [ 3 ] CVE-2006-4566 |
| 70 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4566 |
| 71 | [ 4 ] CVE-2006-4568 |
| 72 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4568 |
| 73 | [ 5 ] CVE-2006-4570 |
| 74 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4570 |
| 75 | [ 6 ] CVE-2006-4571 |
| 76 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4571 |
| 77 | |
| 78 | Availability |
| 79 | ============ |
| 80 | |
| 81 | This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
| 82 | the Gentoo Security Website: |
| 83 | |
| 84 | http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml |
| 85 | |
| 86 | Concerns? |
| 87 | ========= |
| 88 | |
| 89 | Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
| 90 | confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
| 91 | importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
| 92 | security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
| 93 | http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | License |
| 96 | ======= |
| 97 | |
| 98 | Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
| 99 | belongs to its owner(s). |
| 100 | |
| 101 | The contents of this document are licensed under the |
| 102 | Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
| 103 | |
| 104 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |