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Debian Icedove DSA-2025-1 Critical: Remote Threats Affecting Email Client

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2010
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Upgrade Icedove to mitigate multiple external security threats highlighted in DSA-2025-1 for Debian platforms.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail client

Summary

CVE-2009-2408

Dan Kaminsky and Moxie Marlinspike discovered that icedove does not
properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's
Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate (MFSA 2009-42).

CVE-2009-2404

Moxie Marlinspike reported a heap overflow vulnerability in the code
that handles regular expressions in certificate names (MFSA 2009-43).

CVE-2009-2463

monarch2020 discovered an integer overflow n a base64 decoding function
(MFSA 2010-07).

CVE-2009-3072

Josh Soref discovered a crash in the BinHex decoder (MFSA 2010-07).

CVE-2009-3075

Carsten Book reported a crash in the JavaScript engine (MFSA 2010-07).

CVE-2010-0163

Ludovic Hirlimann reported a crash indexing some messages with
attachments, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code
(MFSA 2010-07).


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.0.24-0lenny1.

Due to a problem with the archive system it is not possible to release
all architectures. The missing architectures will be insta...

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Package: icedove
CVE IDs: CVE-2009-2408 CVE-2009-2404 CVE-2009-2463

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