Update to new upstream SeaMonkey version 2.0.1, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/seamonkey20.html#seamonkey2.0.1 CVE-2009-3979 CVE-2009-3980 CVE-2009-3982 CVE-2009-3983 CVE-2009-3984 CVE-2009-3985 CVE-2009-3986 CVE-2009-3388 CVE-2009-3389

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Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.5.6, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox35.html#firefox3.5.6 Update also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against new version of Firefox / XULRunner. CVE-2009-3979 CVE-2009-3980 CVE-2009-3982 CVE-2009-3983 CVE-2009-3984 CVE-2009-3985 CVE-2009-3986 CVE-2009-3388 CVE-2009-3389

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Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues 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. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-3979, CVE-2009-3981, CVE-2009-3986)

A flaw was found in the Firefox NT Lan Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol implementation. If an attacker could trick a local user that has NTLM credentials into visiting a specially crafted web page, they could send arbitrary requests, authenticated with the user's NTLM credentials, to other applications on the user's system.
(CVE-2009-3983)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed the SSL location bar indicator. An attacker could create an unencrypted web page that appears to be encrypted, possibly tricking the user into believing they are visiting a secure page. (CVE-2009-3984)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed blank pages after a user navigates to an invalid address. If a user visits an attacker-controlled web page that results in a blank page, the attacker could inject content into that blank page, possibly tricking the user into believing they are viewing a legitimate page.
(CVE-2009-3985)

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.0.16. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this errata.

All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.0.16, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref, Martijn Wargers, Jose Angel, Olli Pettay, and David James discovered several flaws in the browser and JavaScript engines of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-3979, CVE-2009-3980, CVE-2009-3982, CVE-2009-3986)

Takehiro Takahashi discovered flaws in the NTLM implementation in Firefox. If an NTLM authenticated user visited a malicious website, a remote attacker could send requests to other applications, authenticated as the user. (CVE-2009-3983)

Jonathan Morgan discovered that Firefox did not properly display SSL indicators under certain circumstances. This could be used by an attacker to spoof an encrypted page, such as in a phishing attack.
(CVE-2009-3984)

Jordi Chancel discovered that Firefox did not properly display invalid URLs for a blank page. If a user were tricked into accessing a malicious website, an attacker could exploit this to spoof the location bar, such as in a phishing attack. (CVE-2009-3985)

David Keeler, Bob Clary, and Dan Kaminsky discovered several flaws in third party media libraries. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-3388, CVE-2009-3389).

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.

The Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.5.6, fixing lots of bugs and various security issues.

The following issues were fixed :

  - MFSA 2009-65/CVE-2009-3979/CVE-2009-3980/CVE-2009-3982     Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.6)

  - MFSA 2009-66/CVE-2009-3388 (bmo#504843,bmo#523816)     Memory safety fixes in liboggplay media library

  - MFSA 2009-67/CVE-2009-3389 (bmo#515882,bmo#504613)     Integer overflow, crash in libtheora video library

  - MFSA 2009-68/CVE-2009-3983 (bmo#487872) NTLM reflection     vulnerability

  - MFSA 2009-69/CVE-2009-3984/CVE-2009-3985     (bmo#521461,bmo#514232) Location bar spoofing     vulnerabilities

  - MFSA 2009-70/CVE-2009-3986 (bmo#522430) Privilege     escalation via chrome window.opener

Security issues were identified and fixed in firefox 3.5.x :

liboggplay in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.6 and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to memory safety issues. (CVE-2009-3388)

Integer overflow in libtheora in Xiph.Org Theora before 1.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox 3.5 before 3.5.6 and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a video with large dimensions (CVE-2009-3389).

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors (CVE-2009-3979).

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.6, SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors (CVE-2009-3980).

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.6, SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors (CVE-2009-3982).

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to send authenticated requests to arbitrary applications by replaying the NTLM credentials of a browser user (CVE-2009-3983).

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to spoof an SSL indicator for an http URL or a file URL by setting document.location to an https URL corresponding to a site that responds with a No Content (aka 204) status code and an empty body (CVE-2009-3984).

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to associate spoofed content with an invalid URL by setting document.location to this URL, and then writing arbitrary web script or HTML to the associated blank document, a related issue to CVE-2009-2654 (CVE-2009-3985).

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges by leveraging a reference to a chrome window from a content window, related to the window.opener property (CVE-2009-3986).

The GeckoActiveXObject function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, generates different exception messages depending on whether the referenced COM object is listed in the registry, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information about installed software by making multiple calls that specify the ProgID values of different COM objects (CVE-2009-3987).

Additionally, some packages which require so, have been rebuilt and are being provided as updates.

The Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.5.6, fixing lots of bugs and various security issues.

The following issues were fixed :

  - Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.6).
    (MFSA 2009-65 / CVE-2009-3979 / CVE-2009-3980 /     CVE-2009-3982)

  - (bmo#504843,bmo#523816) Memory safety fixes in     liboggplay media library. (MFSA 2009-66 / CVE-2009-3388)

  - (bmo#515882,bmo#504613) Integer overflow, crash in     libtheora video library. (MFSA 2009-67 / CVE-2009-3389)

  - (bmo#487872) NTLM reflection vulnerability. (MFSA     2009-68 / CVE-2009-3983)

  - (bmo#521461,bmo#514232) Location bar spoofing     vulnerabilities. (MFSA 2009-69 / CVE-2009-3984 /     CVE-2009-3985)

  - (bmo#522430) Privilege escalation via chrome     window.opener. (MFSA 2009-70 / CVE-2009-3986)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
43336	Fedora 12 : seamonkey-2.0.1-1.fc12 (2009-13362)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	12/18/2009	1/11/2021	high
43339	Fedora 12 : Miro-2.5.2-7.fc12 / blam-1.8.5-21.fc12 / firefox-3.5.6-1.fc12 / galeon-2.0.7-19.fc12 / etc (2009-13366)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	12/18/2009	1/11/2021	high
43356	CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:1674)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	12/21/2009	1/4/2021	high
43367	Ubuntu 9.10 : firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9.1 vulnerabilities (USN-874-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	12/21/2009	1/19/2021	high
43383	openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-1708)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/22/2009	1/14/2021	high
48162	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : firefox (MDVSA-2009:338)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	7/30/2010	1/6/2021	high
49889	SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 6735)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/11/2010	1/14/2021	high

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