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GLSA-200703-08 : SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
high Nessus Plugin ID 24800
Synopsis
The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200703-08 (SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities)Tom Ferris reported a heap-based buffer overflow involving wide SVG stroke widths that affects SeaMonkey. Various researchers reported some errors in the JavaScript engine potentially leading to memory corruption. SeaMonkey also contains minor vulnerabilities involving cache collision and unsafe pop-up restrictions, filtering or CSS rendering under certain conditions. All those vulnerabilities are the same as in GLSA 200703-04 affecting Mozilla Firefox.
Impact :
An attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web page or to read a specially crafted email that will trigger one of the vulnerabilities, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.
It is also possible for an attacker to spoof the address bar, steal information through cache collision, bypass the local file protection mechanism with pop-ups, or perform cross-site scripting attacks, leading to the exposure of sensitive information, such as user credentials.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time for all of these issues, but most of them can be avoided by disabling JavaScript. Note that the execution of JavaScript is disabled by default in the SeaMonkey email client, and enabling it is strongly discouraged.
Solution
Users upgrading to the following release of SeaMonkey should note that the corresponding Mozilla Firefox upgrade has been found to lose the saved passwords file in some cases. The saved passwords are encrypted and stored in the 'signons.txt' file of ~/.mozilla/ and we advise our users to save that file before performing the upgrade.All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/seamonkey-1.1.1' All SeaMonkey binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/seamonkey-bin-1.1.1'
See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 24800
File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200703-08.nasl
Version: 1.19
Type: local
Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks
Published: 3/12/2007
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.3
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 7.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:seamonkey, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:seamonkey-bin, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/9/2007
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2006
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2006-6077, CVE-2007-0775, CVE-2007-0776, CVE-2007-0777, CVE-2007-0778, CVE-2007-0779, CVE-2007-0780, CVE-2007-0800, CVE-2007-0801, CVE-2007-0981, CVE-2007-0995