Fedora 9 : seamonkey-1.1.14-1.fc9 (2008-11586)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 35237

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to new upstream release 1.1.14 fixing multiple security issues:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html#seamonkey1.1.14

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected seamonkey package.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476266

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476272

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476278

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476280

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476281

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476283

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476285

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476287

http://www.nessus.org/u?b49d4f88

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 35237

File Name: fedora_2008-11586.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:seamonkey, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5500, CVE-2008-5503, CVE-2008-5506, CVE-2008-5507, CVE-2008-5508, CVE-2008-5510, CVE-2008-5511, CVE-2008-5512

BID: 32882

CWE: 20, 200, 264, 399, 79

FEDORA: 2008-11586