GLSA 200612-08: SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	12/10/2006
Bugs:	#154449
ID:	200612-08

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in the SeaMonkey project.

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	< 1.0.6	>= 1.0.6	All supported architectures

Description

The SeaMonkey project is vulnerable to arbitrary JavaScript bytecode execution and arbitrary code execution.

Impact

An attacker could entice a user to load malicious JavaScript or a malicious web page with a SeaMonkey application and execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running those products. It is important to note that in the SeaMonkey email client, JavaScript is disabled by default.

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-1.0.6"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-08.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.