openSUSE 15 Security Update : seamonkey (openSUSE-SU-2024:0329-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 208676

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2024:0329-1 advisory.

update to SeaMonkey 2.53.19:

* Cancel button in SeaMonkey bookmarking star ui not working bug 1872623.
* Remove OfflineAppCacheHelper.jsm copy from SeaMonkey and use the one in toolkit bug 1896292.
* Remove obsolete registerFactoryLocation calls from cZ bug 1870930.
* Remove needless implements='nsIDOMEventListener' and QI bug 1611010.
* Replace use of nsIStandardURL::Init bug 1864355.
* Switch SeaMonkey website from hg.mozilla.org to heptapod. bug 1870934.
* Allow view-image to open a data: URI by setting a flag on the loadinfo bug 1877001.
* Save-link-as feature should use the loading principal and context menu using nsIContentPolicy.TYPE_SAVE_AS_DOWNLOAD bug 1879726.
* Use punycode in SeaMonkey JS bug 1864287.
* Font lists in preferences are no longer grouped by font type, port asynchronous handling like Bug 1399206 bug 1437393.
* SeaMonkey broken tab after undo closed tab with invalid protocol bug 1885748.
* SeaMonkey session restore is missing the checkboxes in the Classic theme bug 1896174.
* Implement about:credits on seamonkey-project.org website bug 1898467.
* Fix for the 0.0.0.0 day vulnerability oligo summary.
* Link in update notification does not open Browser bug 1888364.
* Update ReadExtensionPrefs in Preferences.cpp bug 1890196.
* Add about:seamonkey page to SeaMonkey bug 1897801.
* SeaMonkey 2.53.19 uses the same backend as Firefox and contains the relevant Firefox 60.8 security fixes.
* SeaMonkey 2.53.19 shares most parts of the mail and news code with Thunderbird. Please read the Thunderbird 60.8.0 release notes for specific security fixes in this release.
* Additional important security fixes up to Current Firefox 115.14 and Thunderbird 115.14 ESR plus many enhancements have been backported. We will continue to enhance SeaMonkey security in subsequent 2.53.x beta and release versions as fast as we are able to.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected seamonkey, seamonkey-dom-inspector and / or seamonkey-irc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 208676

File Name: openSUSE-2024-0329-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/10/2024

Updated: 10/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:seamonkey, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:seamonkey-dom-inspector, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:seamonkey-irc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2024

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