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Severity: Normal
Title: Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: March 03, 2007
Bugs: #135257
ID: 200703-05
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Synopsis
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Several vulnerabilities exist in the Mozilla Suite, which is
no longer
supported by the Mozilla project.
Background
==========
The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that
includes a
mail and news reader.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable /
Unaffected
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1 www-client/mozilla <= 1.7.13
Vulnerable!
2 www-client/mozilla-bin <= 1.7.13
Vulnerable!
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NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users
should migrate
to another package if one is available or wait
for the
existing packages to be marked stable by their
architecture maintainers.
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2 affected packages on all of their supported
architectures.
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Description
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Several vulnerabilities ranging from code execution with
elevated
privileges to information leaks affect the Mozilla Suite.
Impact
======
A remote attacker could entice a user to browse to a
specially crafted
website or open a specially crafted mail that could trigger
some of the
vulnerabilities, potentially allowing execution of arbitrary
code,
denials of service, information leaks, or cross-site
scripting attacks
leading to the robbery of cookies of authentication
credentials.
Workaround
==========
Most of the issues, but not all of them, can be prevented by
disabling
the HTML rendering in the mail client and JavaScript on
every
application.
Resolution
==========
The Mozilla Suite is no longer supported and has been masked
after some
necessary changes on all the other ebuilds which used to
depend on it.
Mozilla Suite users should unmerge www-client/mozilla or
www-client/mozilla-bin, and switch to a supported product,
like
SeaMonkey, Thunderbird or Firefox.
# emerge --unmerge "www-client/mozilla"
# emerge --unmerge "www-client/mozilla-bin"
References
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[ 1 ] Official Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/secur
ity/known-vulnerabilities.html#Mozilla
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing
at
the Gentoo Security Website:
ht
tp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-05.xml
Concerns?
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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
security gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
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