SeaMonkey < 2.0.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 44660

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Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The installed version of SeaMonkey is earlier than 2.0.3. Such versions are potentially affected by the following security issues :

- Multiple crashes can result in arbitrary code execution.
(MFSA 2010-01)

- The implementation of 'Web Workers' contained an error in its handling of array data types when processing posted messages. (MFSA 2010-02)

- The HTML parser incorrectly frees used memory when insufficient space is available to process remaining input. (MFSA 2010-03)

- A cross-site scripting issue exists due to 'window.dialogArguments' being readable cross-domain.
(MFSA 2010-04)

- A cross-site scripting issue exists when using SVG documents and binary Content-Type. (MFSA 2010-05)

- Multiple crashes can result in arbitrary code execution.
(MFSA 2010-11)

- A cross-site scripting issue when using 'addEventListener' and 'setTimeout' on a wrapped object.
(MFSA 2010-12)

- It is possible to corrupt a user's XUL cache. (MFSA 2010-14)
- The XMLHttpRequestSpy module in the Firebug add-on exposes an underlying chrome privilege escalation vulnerability. (MFSA 2010-21)

Solution

Upgrade to SeaMonkey 2.0.3 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-01/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-02/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-03/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-04/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-05/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-11/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-12/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-14/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-21/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44660

File Name: seamonkey_203.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 2/18/2010

Updated: 7/27/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey

Required KB Items: SeaMonkey/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1571, CVE-2009-3988, CVE-2010-0159, CVE-2010-0160, CVE-2010-0162, CVE-2010-0167, CVE-2010-0169, CVE-2010-0171, CVE-2010-0179

BID: 38285, 38286, 38287, 38288, 38289, 38922, 38946, 39124

CWE: 264, 399, 79, 94

Secunia: 37242