openSUSE Security Update : seamonkey (openSUSE-2017-189)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 96942

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for SeaMonkey to version 2.46 fixes security issues and bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

- Fix all Gecko related security issues between 43.0.1 and 49.0.2

- CVE-2016-6354: buffer overrun in flex (boo#990856)

The following non-security changes are included :

- improve recognition of LANGUAGE env variable (boo#1017174)

- improve TLS compatibility with certain websites (boo#1021636)

- SeaMonkey now requires NSPR 4.12 and NSS 3.25

- based on Gecko 49.0.2

- Chatzilla and DOM Inspector were disabled

Solution

Update the affected seamonkey packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 96942

File Name: openSUSE-2017-189.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/2/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:seamonkey-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:seamonkey-translations-other, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:seamonkey, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:seamonkey-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:seamonkey-debugsource

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6354

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