Executive Summary

Summary
Title seamonkey security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2009:0398 First vendor Publication 2009-03-27
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2009-03-27
Severity (Vendor) Critical Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

Updated seamonkey packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 - i386, ia64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 - i386 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 - i386 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64 Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 - ia64

3. Description:

SeaMonkey is an open source Web browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor.

A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way SeaMonkey handles XML files containing an XSLT transform. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash SeaMonkey or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-1169)

A flaw was discovered in the way SeaMonkey handles certain XUL garbage collection events. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash SeaMonkey or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-1044)

All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. After installing the update, SeaMonkey must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

492211 - CVE-2009-1169 Firefox XSLT memory corruption issue 492212 - CVE-2009-1044 Firefox XUL garbage collection issue (cansecwest pwn2own)

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0398.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11368
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11368
Title: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the _moveToEdgeShift XUL tree method, which triggers garbage collection on objects that are still in use, as demonstrated by Nils during a PWN2OWN competition at CanSecWest 2009.
Description: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the _moveToEdgeShift XUL tree method, which triggers garbage collection on objects that are still in use, as demonstrated by Nils during a PWN2OWN competition at CanSecWest 2009.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-1044
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11372
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11372
Title: The txMozillaXSLTProcessor::TransformToDoc function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.8 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XML file with a crafted XSLT transform.
Description: The txMozillaXSLTProcessor::TransformToDoc function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.8 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XML file with a crafted XSLT transform.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-1169
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13356
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13356
Title: DSA-1756-1 xulrunner -- multiple
Description: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications, such as the Iceweasel web browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2009-1169 Security researcher Guido Landi discovered that a XSL stylesheet could be used to crash the browser during a XSL transformation. An attacker could potentially use this crash to run arbitrary code on a victim’s computer. CVE-2009-1044 Security researcher Nils reported via TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative that the XUL tree method _moveToEdgeShift was in some cases triggering garbage collection routines on objects which were still in use. In such cases, the browser would crash when attempting to access a previously destroyed object and this crash could be used by an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim’s computer. Note that after installing these updates, you will need to restart any packages using xulrunner, typically iceweasel or epiphany. For the stable distribution, these problems have been fixed in version 1.9.0.7-0lenny2. As indicated in the Etch release notes, security support for the Mozilla products in the oldstable distribution needed to be stopped before the end of the regular Etch security maintenance life cycle. You are strongly encouraged to upgrade to stable or switch to a still supported browser. For the unstable distribution, these problems have been fixed in version 1.9.0.8-1 We recommend that you upgrade your xulrunner package.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1756-1
CVE-2009-1169
CVE-2009-1044
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
 Product(s): xulrunner
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13817
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13817
Title: USN-745-1 -- firefox, firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9 vulnerabilities
Description: It was discovered that Firefox did not properly perform XUL garbage collection. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and 8.10. A flaw was discovered in the way Firefox performed XSLT transformations. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted XSL stylesheet, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-745-1
CVE-2009-1044
CVE-2009-1169
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 8.10
 Product(s): firefox
firefox-3.0
xulrunner-1.9
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22766
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22766
Title: ELSA-2009:0397: firefox security update (Critical)
Description: The txMozillaXSLTProcessor::TransformToDoc function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.8 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XML file with a crafted XSLT transform.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2009:0397-01
CVE-2009-1044
CVE-2009-1169
 Version: 13
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): firefox
xulrunner
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:29178
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:29178
Title: RHSA-2009:0397 -- firefox security update (Critical)
Description: Updated firefox packages that fix two 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. A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-1169)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2009:0397
CESA-2009:0397-CentOS 5
CVE-2009-1044
CVE-2009-1169
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 5
 Product(s): firefox
xulrunner
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7898
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7898
Title: DSA-1756 xulrunner -- multiple vulnerabilities
Description: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications, such as the Iceweasel web browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: Security researcher Guido Landi discovered that a XSL stylesheet could be used to crash the browser during a XSL transformation. An attacker could potentially use this crash to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer. Security researcher Nils reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that the XUL tree method _moveToEdgeShift was in some cases triggering garbage collection routines on objects which were still in use. In such cases, the browser would crash when attempting to access a previously destroyed object and this crash could be used by an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer. Note that after installing these updates, you will need to restart any packages using xulrunner, typically iceweasel or epiphany. As indicated in the Etch release notes, security support for the Mozilla products in the oldstable distribution needed to be stopped before the end of the regular Etch security maintenance life cycle. You are strongly encouraged to upgrade to stable or switch to a still supported browser.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1756
CVE-2009-1169
CVE-2009-1044
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
 Product(s): xulrunner
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 167

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for seamonkey CESA-2009:0398 centos3 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0398_seamonkey_centos3_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for seamonkey CESA-2009:0398-01 centos2 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0398-01_seamonkey_centos2_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2009:0397 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0397_firefox_centos4_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for xulrunner CESA-2009:0397 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0397_xulrunner_centos5_i386.nasl
2009-10-13 Name : SLES10: Security update for MozillaFirefox
File : nvt/sles10_MozillaFirefox3.nasl
2009-10-11 Name : SLES11: Security update for MozillaFirefox
File : nvt/sles11_MozillaFirefox0.nasl
2009-04-20 Name : SuSE Security Advisory SUSE-SA:2009:023 (MozillaFirefox)
File : nvt/suse_sa_2009_023.nasl
2009-04-20 Name : SuSE Security Advisory SUSE-SA:2009:022 (MozillaFirefox)
File : nvt/suse_sa_2009_022.nasl
2009-04-15 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:0397 (firefox)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_0397.nasl
2009-04-08 Name : Firefox XSL Parsing Vulnerability (Linux)
File : nvt/gb_firefox_xsl_parsing_vuln_lin.nasl
2009-04-08 Name : Firefox XSL Parsing Vulnerability (Win)
File : nvt/gb_firefox_xsl_parsing_vuln_win.nasl
2009-04-08 Name : Mozilla Seamonkey XSL Parsing Vulnerability (Linux)
File : nvt/gb_seamonkey_xsl_parsing_vuln_lin.nasl
2009-04-08 Name : Mozilla Seamonkey XSL Parsing Vulnerability (Win)
File : nvt/gb_seamonkey_xsl_parsing_vuln_win.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : Ubuntu USN-745-1 (xulrunner-1.9)
File : nvt/ubuntu_745_1.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0397
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0397.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:0398-01 (seamonkey)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_0398_01.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : Ubuntu USN-749-1 (libsndfile)
File : nvt/ubuntu_749_1.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:0398 (seamonkey)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_0398.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:084 (firefox)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_084.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-3161 (seamonkey)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_3161.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-3101 (seamonkey)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_3101.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-3100 (firefox)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_3100.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-3099 (firefox)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_3099.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1756-1 (xulrunner)
File : nvt/deb_1756_1.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0398
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0398.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
53079 Mozilla Multiple Products txMozillaXSLTProcessor::TransformToDoc Function Cra...
52896 Mozilla Firefox on Windows _moveToEdgeShift() XUL Tree Method Garbage Collect...

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2017-08-01 Mozilla Firefox XUL tree element code execution attempt
RuleID : 43367 - Revision : 1 - Type : BROWSER-FIREFOX
2015-03-27 Mozilla Firefox 3 xsl parsing heap overflow attempt
RuleID : 33566 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-FIREFOX
2014-01-10 Mozilla Firefox 3 xsl parsing heap overflow attempt
RuleID : 17444 - Revision : 12 - Type : BROWSER-FIREFOX
2014-01-10 Mozilla Firefox XUL tree element code execution attempt
RuleID : 17258 - Revision : 9 - Type : BROWSER-FIREFOX
2014-01-10 Mozilla Firefox 3 xsl parsing heap overflow attempt
RuleID : 15431 - Revision : 14 - Type : BROWSER-FIREFOX

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-0398.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-0397.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201301-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-06 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-0397.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_MozillaFirefox-090407.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_MozillaFirefox-6187.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_MozillaFirefox-090407.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_seamonkey-090617.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_MozillaFirefox-090407.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_seamonkey-090617.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-06-19 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_seamonkey-6310.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-3161.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-084.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2009-3100.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-745-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_MozillaFirefox-6194.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-10 Name : A web browser on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : seamonkey_1116.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1756.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-31 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-3101.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-30 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0397.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-30 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0398.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-30 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_308.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2009-3099.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-30 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-0398.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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