Download Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.8

SeaMonkey is the continuation of the Mozilla Suite after the Mozilla Foundation announced it was discontinuing further development. SeaMonkey has a web explorer and an e-mail program that use Gecko 1.8.1. In addition, there is also a newsgroup and irc client present and it is completed with a program to edit html files. The members of the SeaMonkey Council have released a new security release with 1.1.8 as the version number, and provided it with the following announcement:

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)