SeaMonkey is de voortzetting van de Mozilla Suite nadat de Mozilla Foundation aankondigde de verdere ontwikkeling hiervan te staken. SeaMonkey beschikt over een webverkenner en een e-mailprogramma die gebruik maken van Gecko 1.8.1. Daarnaast is er ook een nieuwsgroep- en irc-client aanwezig en wordt het geheel volmaakt met een programma om html-bestanden te bewerken. De leden van de SeaMonkey Council hebben een nieuwe security release uitgebracht met 1.1.8 als het versienummer, en deze voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:
SeaMonkey 1.1.8 Released
Today, the SeaMonkey project released a new version of its all-in-one internet suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.8 closes several security vulnerabilities and fixes several smaller problems found in previous versions. With that, SeaMonkey stays at the same level of security as its sibling Firefox, which is issuing updates for the same problems this week as well.
The SeaMonkey team urges users of older SeaMonkey versions, including the SeaMonkey 1.0.x series, which no longer receives security updates, to upgrade. Additionally, the team continues to strongly urge people still using the old Mozilla Suite or Netscape 4, 6 or 7 to upgrade to the new SeaMonkey 1.1.8 version. All these older software packages suffer from a large and steadily increasing number of security vulnerabilities because they are no longer being maintained. SeaMonkey 1.1.8 is a modern, drop-in replacement, providing the same familiar suite functionality with additional features and fully up to date security.
SeaMonkey 1.1.8 is available for free download from the open source project's website.
Fixed security vulnerabilities in SeaMonkey 1.1.8:
- MFSA 2008-10 URL token stealing via stylesheet redirect
- MFSA 2008-09 Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files
- MFSA 2008-06 Web browsing history and forward navigation stealing
- MFSA 2008-05 Directory traversal via chrome: URI
- MFSA 2008-03 Privilege escalation, XSS, Remote Code Execution
- MFSA 2008-02 Multiple file input focus stealing vulnerabilities
- MFSA 2008-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.12)
