The mail component in Mozilla SeaMonkey before 1.1.19 does not properly restrict execution of scriptable plugin content, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via crafted content in an IFRAME element in an HTML e-mail message, as demonstrated by a Flash object that sends arbitrary local files during a reply or forward operation.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:1531 :

Updated SeaMonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

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

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

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey creates temporary file names for downloaded files. If a local attacker knows the name of a file SeaMonkey is going to download, they can replace the contents of that file with arbitrary contents. (CVE-2009-3274)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the SeaMonkey string to floating point conversion routines. A web page containing malicious JavaScript could crash SeaMonkey or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey.
(CVE-2009-1563)

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handles text selection. A malicious website may be able to read highlighted text in a different domain (e.g. another website the user is viewing), bypassing the same-origin policy. (CVE-2009-3375)

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displays a right-to-left override character when downloading a file. In these cases, the name displayed in the title bar differs from the name displayed in the dialog body. An attacker could use this flaw to trick a user into downloading a file that has a file name or extension that differs from what the user expected. (CVE-2009-3376)

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-3380)

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.

This update brings Mozilla SeaMonkey to 1.1.19 fixing various bugs and security issues.

Following security issues are fixed: MFSA 2010-07: Mozilla developers took fixes from previously fixed memory safety bugs in newer Mozilla-based products and ported them to the Mozilla 1.8.1 branch so they can be utilized by Thunderbird 2 and SeaMonkey 1.1.

Paul Fisher reported a crash when joined to an Active Directory server under Vista or Windows 7 and using SSPI authentication.
(CVE-2010-0161) Ludovic Hirlimann reported a crash indexing some messages with attachments (CVE-2010-0163) Carsten Book reported a crash in the JavaScript engine (CVE-2009-3075) Josh Soref reported a crash in the BinHex decoder used on non-Mac platforms. (CVE-2009-3072) monarch2000 reported an integer overflow in a base64 decoding function (CVE-2009-2463)

MFSA 2009-68 / CVE-2009-3983: Security researcher Takehiro Takahashi of the IBM X-Force reported that Mozilla's NTLM implementation was vulnerable to reflection attacks in which NTLM credentials from one application could be forwarded to another arbitary application via the browser. If an attacker could get a user to visit a web page he controlled he could force NTLM authenticated requests to be forwarded to another application on behalf of the user.

MFSA 2009-62 / CVE-2009-3376: Mozilla security researchers Jesse Ruderman and Sid Stamm reported that when downloading a file containing a right-to-left override character (RTL) in the filename, the name displayed in the dialog title bar conflicts with the name of the file shown in the dialog body. An attacker could use this vulnerability to obfuscate the name and file extension of a file to be downloaded and opened, potentially causing a user to run an executable file when they expected to open a non-executable file.

MFSA 2009-59 / CVE-2009-0689: Security researcher Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research reported a heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla's string to floating point number conversion routines. Using this vulnerability an attacker could craft some malicious JavaScript code containing a very long string to be converted to a floating point number which would result in improper memory allocation and the execution of an arbitrary memory location. This vulnerability could thus be leveraged by the attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer.

Update: The underlying flaw in the dtoa routines used by Mozilla appears to be essentially the same as that reported against the libc gdtoa routine by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.

MFSA 2010-06 / CVE-2009-3385: Security researcher Georgi Guninski reported that scriptable plugin content, such as Flash objects, could be loaded and executed in SeaMonkey mail messages by embedding the content in an iframe inside the message. If a user were to reply to or forward such a message, malicious JavaScript embedded in the plugin content could potentially steal the contents of the message or files from the local filesystem.

MFSA 2009-49 / CVE-2009-3077: An anonymous security researcher, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported that the columns of a XUL tree element could be manipulated in a particular way which would leave a pointer owned by the column pointing to freed memory. An attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to crash a victim's browser and run arbitrary code on the victim's computer.

Please see http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html

This update brings Mozilla SeaMonkey to 1.1.19 fixing various bugs and security issues.

The following security issues are fixed :

  - Mozilla developers took fixes from previously fixed     memory safety bugs in newer Mozilla-based products and     ported them to the Mozilla 1.8.1 branch so they can be     utilized by Thunderbird 2 and SeaMonkey 1.1. (MFSA     2010-07)

  - Paul Fisher reported a crash when joined to an Active     Directory server under Vista or Windows 7 and using SSPI     authentication. (CVE-2010-0161)

  - Ludovic Hirlimann reported a crash indexing some     messages with attachments. (CVE-2010-0163)

  - Carsten Book reported a crash in the JavaScript engine.
    (CVE-2009-3075)

  - Josh Soref reported a crash in the BinHex decoder used     on non-Mac platforms. (CVE-2009-3072)

  - monarch2000 reported an integer overflow in a base64     decoding function. (CVE-2009-2463)

  - Security researcher Takehiro Takahashi of the IBM     X-Force reported that Mozilla's NTLM implementation was     vulnerable to reflection attacks in which NTLM     credentials from one application could be forwarded to     another arbitary application via the browser. If an     attacker could get a user to visit a web page he     controlled he could force NTLM authenticated requests to     be forwarded to another application on behalf of the     user. (MFSA 2009-68 / CVE-2009-3983)

  - Mozilla security researchers Jesse Ruderman and Sid     Stamm reported that when downloading a file containing a     right-to-left override character (RTL) in the filename,     the name displayed in the dialog title bar conflicts     with the name of the file shown in the dialog body. An     attacker could use this vulnerability to obfuscate the     name and file extension of a file to be downloaded and     opened, potentially causing a user to run an executable     file when they expected to open a non-executable file.
    (MFSA 2009-62 / CVE-2009-3376)

  - Security researcher Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research     reported a heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla's     string to floating point number conversion routines.
    Using this vulnerability an attacker could craft some     malicious JavaScript code containing a very long string     to be converted to a floating point number which would     result in improper memory allocation and the execution     of an arbitrary memory location. This vulnerability     could thus be leveraged by the attacker to run arbitrary     code on a victim's computer. (MFSA 2009-59 /     CVE-2009-0689)

Update: The underlying flaw in the dtoa routines used by Mozilla appears to be essentially the same as that reported against the libc gdtoa routine by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.

  - Security researcher Georgi Guninski reported that     scriptable plugin content, such as Flash objects, could     be loaded and executed in SeaMonkey mail messages by     embedding the content in an iframe inside the message.
    If a user were to reply to or forward such a message,     malicious JavaScript embedded in the plugin content     could potentially steal the contents of the message or     files from the local filesystem. (MFSA 2010-06 /     CVE-2009-3385)

  - An anonymous security researcher, via TippingPoint's     Zero Day Initiative, reported that the columns of a XUL     tree element could be manipulated in a particular way     which would leave a pointer owned by the column pointing     to freed memory. An attacker could potentially use this     vulnerability to crash a victim's browser and run     arbitrary code on the victim's computer. (MFSA 2009-49 /     CVE-2009-3077)

Please see http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html

Mozilla Project reports :

MFSA 2010-07 Fixes for potentially exploitable crashes ported to the legacy branch

MFSA 2010-06 Scriptable plugin execution in SeaMonkey mail

MFSA 2009-68 NTLM reflection vulnerability

MFSA 2009-62 Download filename spoofing with RTL override

MFSA 2009-59 Heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion

MFSA 2009-49 TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability

The remote host is running a version of Mozilla SeaMonkey earlier than 1.1.19.  Such versions are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities : 

  - The columns of a XUL tree element could be manipulated in a particular way which would leave a pointer owned by the column pointing to freed memory. (MFSA 2009-49)

  - A heap-based overflow exists in Mozilla's string to floating point number conversion routines. (MFSA 2009-59)

  - It is possible to obfuscate the name of files to be downloaded by using a right-to-left override character (RTL). (MFSA 2009-62)

  - Mozilla's NTLM implementation is vulnerable to reflection attacks in which NTLM credentials from one application could be forwarded to another arbitrary application. (MFSA 2009-68)

  - Scriptable plugin content, such as Flash objects, can be loaded and executed by embedding the content in an iframe inside the message. (MFSA 2010-06)

  - Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities which could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2010-07)

The remote host is running a version of SeaMonkey earlier than 1.1.19.  Such versions are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities : 

  - The columns of a XUL tree element could be manipulated in a particular way which would leave a pointer owned by the column pointing to freed memory. (MFSA 2009-49)

  - A heap-based overflow exists in Mozilla's string to floating point number conversion routines. (MFSA 2009-59)

  - It is possible to obfuscate the name of files to be downloaded by using a right-to-left override character (RTL). (MFSA 2009-62)

  - Mozilla's NTLM implementation is vulnerable to reflection attacks in which NTLM credentials from one application could be forwarded to another arbitrary application. (MFSA 2009-68)

  - Scriptable plugin content, such as Flash objects, can be loaded and executed by embedding the content in an iframe inside the message. (MFSA 2010-06)

  - Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities which could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2010-07)

The installed version of SeaMonkey is earlier than 1.1.19.  Such versions are potentially affected by the following security issues :
  - The columns of a XUL tree element can be manipulated in     a particular way that would leave a pointer owned by     the column pointing to freed memory. (MFSA 2009-49)

  - A heap-based buffer overflow exists in Mozilla's string     to floating point number conversion routines.     (MFSA 2009-59)

  - It is possible to obfuscate the name of files to be     downloaded by using a right-to-left override character     (RTL). (MFSA 2009-62)

  - Mozilla's NTLM implementation is vulnerable to     reflection attacks in which NTLM credentials from one     application could be forwarded to another arbitrary     application. (MFSA 2009-68)

  - Scriptable plugin content, such as Flash objects, can be     loaded and executed by embedding the content in an     iframe inside the message. (MFSA 2010-06)

  - Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities exist that     may result in the execution of arbitrary code.     (MFSA 2010-07)

Updated SeaMonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

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

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

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey creates temporary file names for downloaded files. If a local attacker knows the name of a file SeaMonkey is going to download, they can replace the contents of that file with arbitrary contents. (CVE-2009-3274)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the SeaMonkey string to floating point conversion routines. A web page containing malicious JavaScript could crash SeaMonkey or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey.
(CVE-2009-1563)

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handles text selection. A malicious website may be able to read highlighted text in a different domain (e.g. another website the user is viewing), bypassing the same-origin policy. (CVE-2009-3375)

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displays a right-to-left override character when downloading a file. In these cases, the name displayed in the title bar differs from the name displayed in the dialog body. An attacker could use this flaw to trick a user into downloading a file that has a file name or extension that differs from what the user expected. (CVE-2009-3376)

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2009-3380)

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
67949	Oracle Linux 3 / 4 : seamonkey (ELSA-2009-1531)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
46687	openSUSE Security Update : seamonkey (openSUSE-SU-2010:0273-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
46686	openSUSE Security Update : seamonkey (openSUSE-SU-2010:0273-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
46685	SuSE9 Security Update : epiphany (YOU Patch Number 12616)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
45114	FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (56cfe192-329f-11df-abb2-000f20797ede)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical
801348	Mozilla SeaMonkey < 1.1.19 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Log Correlation Engine	Web Clients	high
5479	SeaMonkey < 1.1.19 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	medium
45111	SeaMonkey < 1.1.19 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high
42296	CentOS 3 / 4 : seamonkey (CESA-2009:1531)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	critical
42288	RHEL 3 / 4 : seamonkey (RHSA-2009:1531)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

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CVE-2009-3385

medium

Tenable Plugins

critical

critical

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