On 12/28/11 6:19 AM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 27/12/11 04:09, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote:
>> In their 12/22/2011 security bulletin,
>> @RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert Week 52 2011
>> SANS reports the following vulnerabilities in Mozilla FF & TB releases.
>> Since SM code is so closely related to the Moz. FF & TB codes,
>> which, if any, of these vulnerabilities are present in SM 2.6.1
>> and when are they due to be removed?
>>
>> *************************************************************
>>
>> (3) HIGH: Mozilla Firefox Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
>> Affected: Firefox 8.x
> [...]
> 
> SeaMonkey 2.6.1 is based on the same backend code as Firefox 9.0.1. They 
> both are emergency security releases for late-noticed (or late-fixed) 
> flaws common to Sm 2.6(.0) and Fx 9.0(.0). Firefox 8 is the previous 
> release, six weeks older, and the corresponding SeaMonkey release is 2.5.
> 
> You might be interested by the page 
> http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey.html — I 
> found it quite easily by following links (starting with the "Release 
> Notes" link) from the SeaMonkey front page, 
> http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Tony.

That page should distinguish between SM 2.6 and SM 2.6.1.  Otherwise,
some users will mistakenly think that security flaws actually fixed
between the two were instead already fixed in 2.6.

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