GLSA 200610-04: Seamonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Seamonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	10/16/2006
Bugs:	#147651
ID:	200610-04

Synopsis

The Seamonkey project has reported multiple security vulnerabilities in the application.

Background

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as 'Mozilla Application Suite'.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-client/seamonkey	< 1.0.5	>= 1.0.5	All supported architectures

Description

A number of vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in Seamonkey. For details please consult the references below.

Impact

The most severe vulnerability involves enticing a user to visit a malicious website, crashing the application and executing arbitrary code with the rights of the user running Seamonkey.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Seamonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-1.0.5"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.