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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:28:38 -0500
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Synopsis:	Critical: seamonkey security update
Issue date:	2009-07-30
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-2404

CVE-2009-2404 nss regexp heap overflow

Moxie Marlinspike reported a heap overflow flaw in a regular expression
parser in the NSS library (provided by SeaMonkey) used to match common
names in certificates. A malicious website could present a
carefully-crafted certificate in such a way as to trigger the heap
overflow, leading to a crash or, possibly, arbitrary code execution with
the permissions of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-2404)

Note: in order to exploit this issue without further user interaction, 
the carefully-crafted certificate would need to be signed by a 
Certificate Authority trusted by SeaMonkey, otherwise SeaMonkey presents 
the victim with a warning that the certificate is untrusted. Only if the 
user then accepts the certificate will the overflow take place.

After installing the updated packages, SeaMonkey must be restarted for 
the update to take effect.

SL 3.0.x

      SRPMS:
seamonkey-1.0.9-0.41.el3.src.rpm
      i386:
seamonkey-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
seamonkey-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-1.0.9-0.41.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.41.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.41.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.41.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.41.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.41.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.41.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.41.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.41.el3.i386.rpm
seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.41.el3.x86_64.rpm
seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.41.el3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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