Advisories, October 16, 2006

Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200610-04

http://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: Normal
Title: Seamonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: October 16, 2006
Bugs: #147651
ID: 200610-04

Synopsis

The Seamonkey project has reported multiple security
vulnerabilities in the application.

Background

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver
production-quality releases of code derived from the application
formerly known as ‘Mozilla Application Suite’.

Affected packages

     Package               /  Vulnerable  /                 Unaffected

  1  www-client/seamonkey       < 1.0.5                       >= 1.0.5

Description

A number of vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in
Seamonkey. For details please consult the references below.

Impact

The most severe vulnerability involves enticing a user to visit
a malicious website, crashing the application and executing
arbitrary code with the rights of the user running Seamonkey.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Seamonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-1.0.5"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2006-4253

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4253

[ 2 ] CVE-2006-4565

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4565

[ 3 ] CVE-2006-4566

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4566

[ 4 ] CVE-2006-4568

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4568

[ 5 ] CVE-2006-4570

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4570

[ 6 ] CVE-2006-4571

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4571

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the
Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or
alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative
Commons – Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

Ubuntu

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-364-1 October 16, 2006
xinit vulnerability
CVE-2006-5214

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.10
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10:
xinit 1.0+0.99.1-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
xinit 1.0.1-0ubuntu3.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session
to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

A race condition existed that would allow other local users to
see error messages generated during another user’s X session. This
could allow potentially sensitive information to be leaked.

Updated packages for Ubuntu 5.10:

Source archives:

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xinit/xinit_1.0+0.99.1-4ubuntu0.1.diff.gz

Size/MD5: 14146
c7b3963113b296e32c2ead0dd2af3a47
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xinit/xinit_1.0+0.99.1-4ubuntu0.1.dsc

Size/MD5: 646
fd5405aa4f5fa0e4de8e8daefad75d0d
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xinit/xinit_1.0+0.99.1.orig.tar.gz

Size/MD5: 107406
599f9b66c0ee38be4fbbea79e5fdd638

amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xinit/xinit_1.0+0.99.1-4ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb

Size/MD5: 27312
037df5b51d6dcf725f151d3c4aaaa3ae

i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xinit/xinit_1.0+0.99.1-4ubuntu0.1_i386.deb

Size/MD5: 26450
2e9440c1df9b104940129ca2239e0e04