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SeaMonkey < 1.1.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4448

Synopsis

A web browser on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The installed version of SeaMonkey is affected by various security issues :
 - A series of vulnerabilities that allow for JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution.
 - Several stability bugs leading to crashes that, in some cases, show traces of memory corruption.
 - An HTTP Referer spoofing issue with malformed URLs.
 - A privacy issue with SSL client authentication.
 - Web content fetched via the 'jar:' protocol can use Java via LiveConnect to open socket connections to arbitrary ports on the localhost.
 - It is possible to have a background tab create a borderless XUL pop-up in front of the active tab in the user's browser.

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.1.9 or higher.

See Also

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-14.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-15.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-16.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-17.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-18.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-19.html

http://www.mozilla.org

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4448

Family: Web Clients

Published: 3/26/2008

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 31653

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4879, CVE-2008-0416, CVE-2008-1195, CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1234, CVE-2008-1235, CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237, CVE-2008-1238, CVE-2008-1240, CVE-2008-1241

BID: 29303