Download Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.3

SeaMonkey Council members have released SeaMonkey 1.0.3 to the global Internet audience. This is the continuation of the Mozilla Suite after the Mozilla Foundation announced it would cease further development. SeaMonkey has a web browser, e-mail and newsgroup client, irc client and the ability to edit html files. This new version mainly focuses on fixing security vulnerabilities and bugs as the following list of changes shows:

New Features and Fixes:

• Improved stability
• Several security fixes
  • MFSA 2006-56 chrome: scheme loading remote content
  • MFSA 2006-55 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.5)
  • MFSA 2006-54 XSS with XPCNativeWrapper(window).Function(…)
  • MFSA 2006-53 UniversalBrowserRead privilege escalation
  • MFSA 2006-52 PAC privilege escalation using Function.prototype.call
  • MFSA 2006-51 Privilege escalation using named-functions and redefined “new Object()”
  • MFSA 2006-50 JavaScript engine vulnerabilities
  • MFSA 2006-49 Heap buffer overwrite on malformed VCard
  • MFSA 2006-48 JavaScript new Function race condition
  • MFSA 2006-47 Native DOM methods can be hijacked across domains
  • MFSA 2006-46 Memory corruption with simultaneous events
  • MFSA 2006-45 Javascript navigator Object Vulnerability
  • MFSA 2006-44 Code execution through deleted frame reference
• A bug was introduced in SeaMonkey 1.0.2 that sometimes caused the URL bar to stop working properly when switching tabs. This has been fixed. (Bug 332874)
• If you have more bookmarks on your personal toolbar than there is space for, the “>>” overflow icon will now display more reliably (Bug 338803)
• If you choose to update SeaMonkey when it notifies you that an update is available, the update page will load in a more useful browser window (with navigation buttons and toolbars) (Bug 334903)