Saturday, October 30, 2010

SeaMonkey: Critical Security Update

Users of SeaMonkey please be advised of a Critical security update vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
RHSA-2010:0810-01: [RHSA-2010:0810-01] Critical: seamonkey security update
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Description:



SeaMonkey is an open source web browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC

chat client, and HTML editor.



A race condition flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled Document

Object Model (DOM) element properties. A web page containing malicious

content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary

code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2010-3765)



All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct

this issue. After installing the update, SeaMonkey must be restarted for

the changes to take effectRead more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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