Fedora 15 : seamonkey-2.0.14-1.fc15 (2011-6267)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53644

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to new upstream SeaMonkey version 2.0.14, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories :

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey20.html #seamonkey2.0.14

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected seamonkey package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?340fe7b3

http://www.nessus.org/u?24c089f6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53644

File Name: fedora_2011-6267.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/5/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:seamonkey, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2011

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Mozilla Firefox "nsTreeRange" Dangling Pointer Vulnerability)

Reference Information

BID: 47641, 47646, 47647, 47648, 47651, 47653, 47654, 47655, 47656, 47657, 47659, 47660, 47662, 47663, 47666, 47667, 47668

FEDORA: 2011-6267