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Debian: DSA-1696-1 Critical Icedove Remote Code Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey January 7, 2009
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Vulnerabilities in Icedove email client revealed. Users advised to update for optimal security and rectification.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail client

Summary

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove
mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail client. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:

CVE-2008-0016

Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer
overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead to the execution
of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-37)

CVE-2008-1380

It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine could
potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-20)

CVE-2008-3835

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that the same-origin check in
nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could be bypassed. (MFSA 2008-38)

CVE-2008-4058

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a vulnerability which can result in
Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)

CVE-2008-4059

"moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a vulnerability which can result in
Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)

CVE-2008...

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Package: icedove
CVE ID: CVE-2008-0016 CVE-2008-1380 CVE-2008-3835 CVE-2008-4058

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