Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: seamonkey security update

Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. SeaMonkey is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat...

CVE-2006-3808: Undefined Security Weakness

Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.5 and SeaMonkey before 1.0.3 allows remote Proxy AutoConfig PAC servers to execute code with elevated privileges via a PAC script that sets the FindProxyForURL function to an eval method on a privileged object...

PAC privilege escalation using Function.prototype.call — Mozilla

mozbugra4 reports that a malicious Proxy AutoConfig PAC server could serve a PAC script that can execute code with elevated privileges by setting the required FindProxyForURL function to the eval method on a privileged object that leaked into the PAC sandbox. By redirecting the victim to a...

EvalInSandbox escape (Proxy Autoconfig, Greasemonkey) — Mozilla

Mozilla researcher mozbugra4 demonstrated that javascript run via EvalInSandbox can escape the sandbox and gain elevated privilege by calling valueOf on objects created outside the sandbox and inserted into it. Malicious scripts could use these privileges to compromise your computer or data...