Updated SeaMonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4.

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 some malformed web content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1235, CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237)

Several flaws were found in the display of malformed web content. A web page containing specially crafted content could, potentially, trick a SeaMonkey user into surrendering sensitive information.
(CVE-2008-1234, CVE-2008-1238, CVE-2008-1241)

All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

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

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

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.

Several flaws were found in the processing of some malformed web content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1235, CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237)

Several flaws were found in the display of malformed web content. A web page containing specially crafted content could, potentially, trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information.
(CVE-2008-1234, CVE-2008-1238, CVE-2008-1241)

All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches that correct these issues.

This update brings Mozilla Firefox to security update version 2.0.0.13

Following security problems were fixed :

  - XUL popup spoofing variant (cross-tab popups). (MFSA     2008-19 / CVE-2008-1241)

  - Java socket connection to any local port via     LiveConnect. (MFSA 2008-18 / CVE-2008-1195 /     CVE-2008-1240)

  - Privacy issue with SSL Client Authentication. (MFSA     2008-17 / CVE-2007-4879)

  - HTTP Referrer spoofing with malformed URLs. (MFSA     2008-16 / CVE-2008-1238)

  - Crashes with evidence of memory corruption     (rv:1.8.1.13). (MFSA 2008-15 / CVE-2008-1236 /     CVE-2008-1237)

  - JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code     execution. (MFSA 2008-14 / CVE-2008-1233 / CVE-2008-1234     / CVE-2008-1235)

This update brings Mozilla SeaMonkey to security update version 1.1.9

Following security problems were fixed :

  - MFSA 2008-19/CVE-2008-1241: XUL popup spoofing variant     (cross-tab popups)

  - MFSA 2008-18/CVE-2008-1195 and CVE-2008-1240: Java     socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect

  - MFSA 2008-17/CVE-2007-4879: Privacy issue with SSL     Client Authentication

  - MFSA 2008-16/CVE-2008-1238: HTTP Referrer spoofing with     malformed URLs

  - MFSA 2008-15/CVE-2008-1236 and CVE-2008-1237: Crashes     with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13)

  - MFSA 2008-14/CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1234, and     CVE-2008-1235: JavaScript privilege escalation and     arbitrary code execution.

Various flaws were discovered in the JavaScript engine. If a user had JavaScript enabled and were tricked into opening a malicious email, an attacker could escalate privileges within Thunderbird, perform cross-site scripting attacks and/or execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1234, CVE-2008-1235)

Several problems were discovered in Thunderbird which could lead to crashes and memory corruption. If a user had JavaScript enabled and were tricked into opening a malicious email, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237).

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

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. Several flaws were found in the processing of some malformed HTML mail content. An HTML mail message containing such malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1235, CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237) Several flaws were found in the display of malformed web content. An HTML mail message containing specially crafted content could, potentially, trick a user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-1234) A flaw was found in the processing of malformed JavaScript content. An HTML mail message containing such malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird.
(CVE-2008-1380) Note: JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird; the above issue is not exploitable unless JavaScript is enabled. All Thunderbird users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported 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.

This update fixes security issues also fixes in the Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13 update round.

Following security problems were fixed :

  - XUL popup spoofing variant (cross-tab popups). (MFSA     2008-19 / CVE-2008-1241)

  - Java socket connection to any local port via     LiveConnect. (MFSA 2008-18 / CVE-2008-1195 /     CVE-2008-1240)

  - Privacy issue with SSL Client Authentication. (MFSA     2008-17 / CVE-2007-4879)

  - HTTP Referrer spoofing with malformed URLs. (MFSA     2008-16 / CVE-2008-1238)

  - Crashes with evidence of memory corruption     (rv:1.8.1.13). (MFSA 2008-15 / CVE-2008-1236 /     CVE-2008-1237)

  - JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code     execution. (MFSA 2008-14 / CVE-2008-1233 / CVE-2008-1234     / CVE-2008-1235)

Various MozillaThunderbird fixes were backported to the 10.2 version (1.5.0.x).

  + MFSA 2008-15/CVE-2008-1236 and CVE-2008-1237: Crashes     with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13)

  + MFSA 2008-14/CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1234, and     CVE-2008-1235: JavaScript privilege escalation and     arbitrary code execution.

JavaScript is not default enabled in our Thunderbird builds though.

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Thunderbird program, version 2.0.0.16 (CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1234, CVE-2008-1235, CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237, CVE-2008-2785, CVE-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2802, CVE-2008-2803, CVE-2008-2807, CVE-2008-2809, CVE-2008-2811).

This update provides the latest Thunderbird to correct these issues.
It also provides Thunderbird 2.x for Corporate 3.0 systems.

Update :

The previous update provided the incorrect version of the enigmail locale files. This version correctly builds them for Thunderbird 2.0.0.16.

Several flaws were found in the processing of some malformed HTML mail content. An HTML mail message containing such malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1235, CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237)

Several flaws were found in the display of malformed web content. An HTML mail message containing specially crafted content could, potentially, trick a user into surrendering sensitive information.
(CVE-2008-1234, CVE-2008-1238, CVE-2008-1241)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
31685	CentOS 3 / 4 : seamonkey (CESA-2008:0208)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	3/28/2008	1/4/2021	high
31694	RHEL 4 / 5 : firefox (RHSA-2008:0207)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	3/28/2008	1/14/2021	high
31722	SuSE 10 Security Update : Security update for (ZYPP Patch Number 5134)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/1/2008	1/14/2021	high
31845	openSUSE 10 Security Update : seamonkey (seamonkey-5153)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/11/2008	1/14/2021	high
32185	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : mozilla-thunderbird, thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-605-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	5/9/2008	1/19/2021	high
32206	Fedora 8 : thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc8 (2008-3557)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	5/11/2008	1/11/2021	high
31991	SuSE 10 Security Update : epiphany (ZYPP Patch Number 5164)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/18/2008	1/14/2021	high
33120	openSUSE 10 Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (MozillaThunderbird-5329)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/9/2008	1/14/2021	high
36242	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-thunderbird (MDVSA-2008:155-1)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	4/23/2009	1/6/2021	critical
60380	Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	8/1/2012	1/14/2021	high

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