Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
SeaMonkey is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. 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-2008-0016, CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062) 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-2008-3835, CVE-2008-4067, CVE-2008-4068, CVE-2008-4069) A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handles mouse click events. A web page containing specially crafted JavaScript code could move the content window while a mouse-button was pressed, causing any item under the pointer to be dragged. This could, potentially, cause the user to perform an unsafe drag-and-drop action.
(CVE-2008-3837) A flaw was found in SeaMonkey that caused certain characters to be stripped from JavaScript code. This flaw could allow malicious JavaScript to bypass or evade script filters.
(CVE-2008-4065, CVE-2008-4066) All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain patches to resolve these issues.

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.

Updated thunderbird packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML mail content. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-0016, CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062)

Several flaws were found in the way malformed HTML mail content was displayed. An HTML mail message containing specially crafted content could potentially trick a Thunderbird user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-3835, CVE-2008-4067, CVE-2008-4068)

A flaw was found in Thunderbird that caused certain characters to be stripped from JavaScript code. This flaw could allow malicious JavaScript to bypass or evade script filters. (CVE-2008-4065, CVE-2008-4066)

Note: JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird; the above issue is not exploitable unless JavaScript is enabled.

A heap based buffer overflow flaw was found in the handling of cancelled newsgroup messages. If the user cancels a specially crafted newsgroup message it could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird.
(CVE-2008-4070)

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

This update backports lots of security fixes to mozilla-xulrunner package of SLES 10.

It contains among others the following security fixes :

  - XBM image uninitialized memory reading. (MFSA 2008-45 /     CVE-2008-4069)

  - resource: traversal vulnerabilities. (MFSA 2008-44 /     CVE-2008-4067 / CVE-2008-4068)

  - BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution     CVE-2008-4065: Stripped BOM characters bug     CVE-2008-4066: HTML escaped low surrogates bug. (MFSA     2008-43)

  - Crashes with evidence of memory corruption     (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17): CVE-2008-4061: Jesse Ruderman     reported a crash in the layout engine. CVE-2008-4062:
    Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski, and     Antoine Labour reported crashes in the JavaScript     engine. CVE-2008-4063: Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, and     Martijn Wargers reported crashes in the layout engine     which only affected Firefox 3. CVE-2008-4064: David     Maciejak and Drew Yao reported crashes in graphics     rendering which only affected Firefox 3. (MFSA 2008-42)

  - Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution     CVE-2008-4058: XPCnativeWrapper pollution bugs     CVE-2008-4059: XPCnativeWrapper pollution (Firefox 2)     CVE-2008-4060: Documents without script handling     objects. (MFSA 2008-41)

  - Forced mouse drag. (MFSA 2008-40 / CVE-2008-3837)

  - Privilege escalation using feed preview page and XSS     flaw. (MFSA 2008-39 / CVE-2008-3836)

  - nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin     violation. (MFSA 2008-38 / CVE-2008-3835)

  - UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow. (MFSA 2008-37 /     CVE-2008-0016)

For more details:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefo x20.html

This update brings Mozilla Thunderbird to version 2.0.0.17.

It contains the following security fixes: MFSA 2008-46 / CVE-2008-4070: Heap overflow when canceling a newsgroup message

MFSA 2008-44 / CVE-2008-4067 / CVE-2008-4068: resource: traversal vulnerabilities

MFSA 2008-43: BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution CVE-2008-4065: Stripped BOM characters bug CVE-2008-4066: HTML escaped low surrogates bug

MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17): CVE-2008-4061: Jesse Ruderman reported a crash in the layout engine. CVE-2008-4062: Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski, and Antoine Labour reported crashes in the JavaScript engine. CVE-2008-4063: Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, and Martijn Wargers reported crashes in the layout engine which only affected Firefox 3.
CVE-2008-4064: David Maciejak and Drew Yao reported crashes in graphics rendering which only affected Firefox 3.

MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution CVE-2008-4058: XPCnativeWrapper pollution bugs CVE-2008-4059:
XPCnativeWrapper pollution (Firefox 2) CVE-2008-4060: Documents without script handling objects

MFSA 2008-38 / CVE-2008-3835: nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation

MFSA 2008-37 / CVE-2008-0016: UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow

For more details:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.ht ml

This update brings mozilla-xulrunner181 to security fix version 1.8.1.17.

It contains the following security fixes: MFSA 2008-45 / CVE-2008-4069: XBM image uninitialized memory reading

MFSA 2008-44 / CVE-2008-4067 / CVE-2008-4068: resource: traversal vulnerabilities

MFSA 2008-43: BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution CVE-2008-4065: Stripped BOM characters bug CVE-2008-4066: HTML escaped low surrogates bug

MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17): CVE-2008-4061: Jesse Ruderman reported a crash in the layout engine. CVE-2008-4062: Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski, and Antoine Labour reported crashes in the JavaScript engine. CVE-2008-4063: Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, and Martijn Wargers reported crashes in the layout engine which only affected Firefox 3.
CVE-2008-4064: David Maciejak and Drew Yao reported crashes in graphics rendering which only affected Firefox 3.

MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution CVE-2008-4058: XPCnativeWrapper pollution bugs CVE-2008-4059:
XPCnativeWrapper pollution (Firefox 2) CVE-2008-4060: Documents without script handling objects

MFSA 2008-40 / CVE-2008-3837: Forced mouse drag

MFSA 2008-39 / CVE-2008-3836: Privilege escalation using feed preview page and XSS flaw

MFSA 2008-38 / CVE-2008-3835: nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation

MFSA 2008-37 / CVE-2008-0016: UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow

For more details:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox20.html

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceape an unbranded version of the SeaMonkey internet suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2008-0016     Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a     buffer overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may     lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-37)

  - CVE-2008-0304     It was discovered that a buffer overflow in MIME     decoding can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
    (MFSA 2008-26)

  - CVE-2008-2785     It was discovered that missing boundary checks on a     reference counter for CSS objects can lead to the     execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-34)

  - CVE-2008-2798     Devon Hubbard, Jesse Ruderman and Martijn Wargers     discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might     allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-21)

  - CVE-2008-2799     Igor Bukanov, Jesse Ruderman and Gary Kwong discovered     crashes in the JavaScript engine, which might allow the     execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-21)

  - CVE-2008-2800     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered several cross-site scripting     vulnerabilities. (MFSA 2008-22)

  - CVE-2008-2801     Collin Jackson and Adam Barth discovered that JavaScript     code could be executed in the context or signed JAR     archives. (MFSA 2008-23)

  - CVE-2008-2802     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that XUL documements can     escalate privileges by accessing the pre-compiled     'fastload' file. (MFSA 2008-24)

  - CVE-2008-2803     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that missing input sanitising     in the mozIJSSubScriptLoader.loadSubScript() function     could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. Iceape     itself is not affected, but some addons are. (MFSA     2008-25)

  - CVE-2008-2805     Claudio Santambrogio discovered that missing access     validation in DOM parsing allows malicious websites to     force the browser to upload local files to the server,     which could lead to information disclosure. (MFSA     2008-27)

  - CVE-2008-2807     Daniel Glazman discovered that a programming error in     the code for parsing .properties files could lead to     memory content being exposed to addons, which could lead     to information disclosure. (MFSA 2008-29)

  - CVE-2008-2808     Masahiro Yamada discovered that file URLs in directory     listings were insufficiently escaped. (MFSA 2008-30)

  - CVE-2008-2809     John G. Myers, Frank Benkstein and Nils Toedtmann     discovered that alternate names on self-signed     certificates were handled insufficiently, which could     lead to spoofings of secure connections. (MFSA 2008-31)

  - CVE-2008-2810     It was discovered that URL shortcut files could be used     to bypass the same-origin restrictions. This issue does     not affect current Iceape, but might occur with     additional extensions installed. (MFSA 2008-32)

  - CVE-2008-2811     Greg McManus discovered a crash in the block reflow     code, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
    (MFSA 2008-33)

  - CVE-2008-2933     Billy Rios discovered that passing an URL containing a     pipe symbol to Iceape can lead to Chrome privilege     escalation. (MFSA 2008-35)

  - CVE-2008-3835     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that the same-origin check in     nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could be bypassed.
    (MFSA 2008-38)

  - CVE-2008-3836     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that several vulnerabilities     in feedWriter could lead to Chrome privilege escalation.
    (MFSA 2008-39)

  - CVE-2008-3837     Paul Nickerson discovered that an attacker could move     windows during a mouse click, resulting in unwanted     action triggered by drag-and-drop. (MFSA 2008-40)

  - CVE-2008-4058     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered a vulnerability which can     result in Chrome privilege escalation through     XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)

  - CVE-2008-4059     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered a vulnerability which can     result in Chrome privilege escalation through     XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)

  - CVE-2008-4060     Olli Pettay and 'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered a Chrome     privilege escalation vulnerability in XSLT handling.
    (MFSA 2008-41)

  - CVE-2008-4061     Jesse Ruderman discovered a crash in the layout engine,     which might allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA     2008-42)

  - CVE-2008-4062     Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski and Antoine     Labour discovered crashes in the JavaScript engine,     which might allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA     2008-42)

  - CVE-2008-4065     Dave Reed discovered that some Unicode byte order marks     are stripped from JavaScript code before execution,     which can result in code being executed, which were     otherwise part of a quoted string. (MFSA 2008-43)

  - CVE-2008-4067     Boris Zbarsky discovered that resource: URLs allow     directory traversal when using URL-encoded slashes.
    (MFSA 2008-44)

  - CVE-2008-4068     Georgi Guninski discovered that resource: URLs could     bypass local access restrictions. (MFSA 2008-44)

  - CVE-2008-4069     Billy Hoffman discovered that the XBM decoder could     reveal uninitialised memory. (MFSA 2008-45)

  - CVE-2008-4070     It was discovered that a buffer overflow could be     triggered via a long header in a news article, which     could lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-46)

  - CVE-2008-5012     Georgi Guninski, Michal Zalewski and Chris Evan     discovered that the canvas element could be used to     bypass same-origin restrictions. (MFSA 2008-48)

  - CVE-2008-5013     It was discovered that insufficient checks in the Flash     plugin glue code could lead to arbitrary code execution.
    (MFSA 2008-49)

  - CVE-2008-5014     Jesse Ruderman discovered that a programming error in     the window.__proto__.__proto__ object could lead to     arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-50)

  - CVE-2008-5017     It was discovered that crashes in the layout engine     could lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-52)

  - CVE-2008-0017     Justin Schuh discovered that a buffer overflow in     http-index-format parser could lead to arbitrary code     execution. (MFSA 2008-54)

  - CVE-2008-5021     It was discovered that a crash in the nsFrameManager     might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA     2008-55)

  - CVE-2008-5022     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that the same-origin check in     nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() could be     bypassed. (MFSA 2008-56)

  - CVE-2008-5024     Chris Evans discovered that quote characters were     improperly escaped in the default namespace of E4X     documents. (MFSA 2008-58)

  - CVE-2008-4582     Liu Die Yu discovered an information leak through local     shortcut files. (MFSA 2008-59)

  - CVE-2008-5500     Jesse Ruderman discovered that the layout engine is     vulnerable to DoS attacks that might trigger memory     corruption and an integer overflow. (MFSA 2008-60)

  - CVE-2008-5503     Boris Zbarsky discovered that an information disclosure     attack could be performed via XBL bindings. (MFSA     2008-61)

  - CVE-2008-5506     Marius Schilder discovered that it is possible to obtain     sensible data via a XMLHttpRequest. (MFSA 2008-64)

  - CVE-2008-5507     Chris Evans discovered that it is possible to obtain     sensible data via a JavaScript URL. (MFSA 2008-65)

  - CVE-2008-5508     Chip Salzenberg discovered possible phishing attacks via     URLs with leading whitespaces or control characters.
    (MFSA 2008-66)

  - CVE-2008-5511     It was discovered that it is possible to perform     cross-site scripting attacks via an XBL binding to an     'unloaded document.' (MFSA 2008-68)

  - CVE-2008-5512     It was discovered that it is possible to run arbitrary     JavaScript with chrome privileges via unknown vectors.
    (MFSA 2008-68)

Versions of Firefox prior to 2.0.0.17 are affected by various security issues : 

 - Using a specially crafted UTF-8 URL in a hyperlink, an attacker might be able to exploit a stack buffer overflow in the Mozilla URL parsing routes to execute arbitrary code (MFSA 2008-37).
 - It is possible to bypass the same-origin check in 'nsXMLDocument: : OnChannelRedirect()' (MFSA 2008-38).
 - There are a series of vulnerabilities in 'feedWriter' that allow scripts from page content to run with chrome privileges (MFSA 2008-39).
 - An attacker can cause the content window to move while the mouse is being clicked, causing an item to be dragged rather than clicked-on (MFSA 2008-40).
 - Privilege escalation is possible via 'XPCnativeWrapper' pollution (MFSA 2008-41).
 - There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2008-42).
 - Certain BOM characters and low surrogate characters, if HTML-escaped, are stripped from JavaScript code before it is executed, which could allow for cross-site scripting attacks (MFSA 2008-43).
 - The 'resource: ' protocol allows directory traversal on Linux when using URL-encoded slashes, and it can be used to bypass restrictions on local HTML files (MFSA 2008-44).
 - A bug in the XBM decoder allows random small chunks of uninitialized memory to be read (MFSA 2008-45).

 The installed version of SeaMonkey is affected by various security issues : 

  - Using a specially crafted UTF-8 URL in a hyperlink, an attacker might be able to exploit a stack buffer overflow in the Mozilla URL parsing routes to execute arbitrary code (MFSA 2008-37).
  - It is possible to bypass the same-origin check in 'nsXMLDocument: : OnChannelRedirect()' (MFSA 2008-38).
  - An attacker can cause the content window to move while the mouse is being clicked, causing an item to be dragged rather than clicked-on (MFSA 2008-40).
  - Privilege escalation is possible via 'XPCnativeWrapper' pollution (MFSA 2008-41).
  - There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2008-42).
  - Certain BOM characters and low surrogate characters, if HTML-escaped, are stripped from JavaScript code before it is executed, which could allow for cross-site scripting attacks (MFSA 2008-43).
  - The 'resource: ' protocol allows directory traversal on Linux when using URL-encoded slashes, and it can by used to bypass restrictions on local HTML files (MFSA 2008-44).
  - A bug in the XBM decoder allows random small chunks of uninitialized memory to be read (MFSA 2008-45).

Versions of Mozilla Thunderbird prior to 2.0.0.17 are affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - Using a specially crafted UTF-8 URL in a hyperlink, an attacker might be able to exploit a stack buffer overflow in the Mozilla URL parsing routes to execute arbitrary code (MFSA 2008-37).
 - It is possible to bypass the same-origin check in 'nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect()' (MFSA 2008-38).
 - Privilege escalation is possible via 'XPCnativeWrapper' pollution (MFSA 2008-41).
 - There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2008-42).
 - Certain BOM characters and low surrogate characters, if HTML-escaped, are stripped from JavaScript code before it is executed, which could allow for cross-site scripting attacks (MFSA 2008-43).
 - The 'resource:' protocol allows directory traversal on Linux when using URL-encoded slashes, and it can by used to bypass restrictions on local HTML files (MFSA 2008-44).
 - There is a heap buffer overflow that can be triggered when canceling a newsgroup message (MFSA 2008-46).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
34307	Fedora 8 : seamonkey-1.1.12-1.fc8 (2008-8401)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	9/29/2008	1/11/2021	critical
34330	RHEL 4 / 5 : thunderbird (RHSA-2008:0908)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	10/2/2008	1/14/2021	critical
34366	SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla (ZYPP Patch Number 5654)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/8/2008	1/14/2021	critical
39893	openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (MozillaThunderbird-236)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/21/2009	1/14/2021	critical
40071	openSUSE Security Update : mozilla-xulrunner181 (mozilla-xulrunner181-237)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/21/2009	1/14/2021	critical
35314	Debian DSA-1697-1 : iceape - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	1/8/2009	1/4/2021	critical
4692	Mozilla Firefox < 2.0.0.17 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	9/24/2008	3/6/2019	medium
4693	SeaMonkey < 1.1.12 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	9/24/2008	3/6/2019	medium
4696	Mozilla Thunderbird < 2.0.0.17 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	SMTP Clients	9/26/2008	3/6/2019	medium

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