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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-6517 (seamonkey)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: seamonkey-1.1.11-1.fc8
Date:  Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:06:21 +0000
Message-ID:  <200807180806.m6I86AFk019007@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-6517 2008-07-18 01:38:06 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : seamonkey Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.1.11 Release : 1.fc8 URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ Summary : Web browser, e-mail, news, IRC client, HTML editor Description : SeaMonkey is an all-in-one Internet application suite. It includes a browser, mail/news client, IRC client, JavaScript debugger, and a tool to inspect the DOM for web pages. It is derived from the application formerly known as Mozilla Application Suite. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Fedora 8. An integer overflow flaw was found in the way Seamonkey displayed certain web content. A malicious web site could cause Seamonkey to crash, or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Seamonkey. (CVE-2008-2785) Updated packages update Seamonkey to upstream version 1.1.11 to address this flaw: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html#seamonkey1.1.11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jul 15 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.1.11-1 - Update to 1.1.11 * Tue Jul 8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.1.10-1 - Update to 1.1.10 - Use bullet characters to match GTK+ * Thu Apr 17 2008 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 1.1.9-2 - add several upstream patches, not yet released: 425576 (crash), 323508, 378132, 390295, 421622 * Fri Mar 28 2008 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 1.1.9-1 - SeaMonkey 1.1.9 * Fri Feb 8 2008 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 1.1.8-1 - SeaMonkey 1.1.8 * Sun Dec 2 2007 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 1.1.7-1 - SeaMonkey 1.1.7 * Mon Nov 5 2007 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 1.1.6-1 - SeaMonkey 1.1.6 * Fri Oct 19 2007 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 1.1.5-2 - SeaMonkey 1.1.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #452204 - CVE-2008-2785 mozilla: CSS reference counter overflow (ZDI-CAN-349) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452204 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update seamonkey' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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