Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for seamonkey. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, and potentially compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for seamonkey
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22391
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22391/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Spoofing, DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for seamonkey. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct spoofing attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, and
potentially compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA21940
SOLUTION:
Update to "www-client/seamonkey-1.0.5" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA21940:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21940/
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