RHSA-2008:0547 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix a 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, advanced email and newsgroup
client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor.

Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed JavaScript
content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause SeaMonkey
to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running
SeaMonkey. (CVE-2008-2801, CVE-2008-2802, CVE-2008-2803)

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-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2811)

Several flaws were found in the way malformed web content was displayed. A
web page containing specially-crafted content could potentially trick a
SeaMonkey user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-2800)

Two local file disclosure flaws were found in SeaMonkey. A web page
containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to reveal the contents
of a local file to a remote attacker. (CVE-2008-2805, CVE-2008-2810)

A flaw was found in the way a malformed .properties file was processed by
SeaMonkey. A malicious extension could read uninitialized memory, possibly
leaking sensitive data to the extension. (CVE-2008-2807)

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey escaped a listing of local file
names. If a user could be tricked into listing a local directory containing
malicious file names, arbitrary JavaScript could be run with the
permissions of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2008-2808)

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displayed information about
self-signed certificates. It was possible for a self-signed certificate to
contain multiple alternate name entries, which were not all displayed to
the user, allowing them to mistakenly extend trust to an unknown site.
(CVE-2008-2809)

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4.6 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4.6 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 4.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.6 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 4.6 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 452597 - CVE-2008-2798 Firefox malformed web content flaws
• BZ - 452598 - CVE-2008-2799 Firefox javascript arbitrary code execution
• BZ - 452599 - CVE-2008-2800 Firefox XSS attacks
• BZ - 452600 - CVE-2008-2802 Firefox arbitrary JavaScript code execution
• BZ - 452602 - CVE-2008-2803 Firefox javascript arbitrary code execution
• BZ - 452604 - CVE-2008-2805 Firefox arbitrary file disclosure
• BZ - 452605 - CVE-2008-2801 Firefox arbitrary signed JAR code execution
• BZ - 452709 - CVE-2008-2807 Firefox .properties memory leak
• BZ - 452710 - CVE-2008-2808 Firefox file location escaping flaw
• BZ - 452711 - CVE-2008-2809 Firefox self signed certificate flaw
• BZ - 452712 - CVE-2008-2810 Firefox arbitrary file disclosure
• BZ - 453007 - CVE-2008-2811 Firefox block reflow flaw

CVEs

• CVE-2008-2805
• CVE-2008-2807
• CVE-2008-2800
• CVE-2008-2801
• CVE-2008-2802
• CVE-2008-2803
• CVE-2008-2811
• CVE-2008-2810
• CVE-2008-2798
• CVE-2008-2799
• CVE-2008-2809
• CVE-2008-2808

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical