Synopsis

Moderate: seamonkey security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Updated seamonkey packages that fix one security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in
the References section.

Description

SeaMonkey is an open source web browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC
chat client, and HTML editor.

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled
certain multibyte character sets. A web page containing malicious content
could cause SeaMonkey to run JavaScript code with the permissions of a
different website. (CVE-2011-3648)

All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct
this issue. 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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

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 Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 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 Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 751932 - CVE-2011-3648 Mozilla: Universal XSS likely with MultiByte charset (MFSA 2011-47)

CVEs

• CVE-2011-3648

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4

SRPM
s390
seamonkey-1.0.9-77.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: ab2edda64882b3f96225811061937716f36568f09eba732b81fdf6dab17b89c5
seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-77.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: a9b4b9b7b758a3ed4ff7e3fe526c51e35d20c016bf488e09ce6a64be1dc5cc1d
seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-77.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 0597ef0479508038da208bed1a718ea4d6da63df3c6578a99b2047728d396eac
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-77.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 3541fc7a66acadb8c6ca55151c10f9f9b64cd3f11d14109f2a72f83b72353223
seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-77.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: c646b1c49a0a85eea4f8666dcf591a9140976378406b694a353128cb0336f1d5
seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-77.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 74a7b367363af129f26d9027c4639e5552a56e183306261f3eb1e4b03586dcfc