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Debian: DSA-2464-1 Critical: Icedove Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey May 3, 2012
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Thunderbird gets essential security patches fixing several flaws. Update suggested for enhanced safety.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Icedove, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail/news client

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Icedove, an unbranded
version of the Thunderbird mail/news client.

CVE-2012-0467

Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Brian Hackett, Bobby Holley, Gary
Kwong, Hilary Hall, Honza Bambas, Jesse Ruderman, Julian Seward,
and Olli Pettay discovered memory corruption bugs, which may lead
to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2012-0470

Atte Kettunen discovered that a memory corruption bug in
gfxImageSurface may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2012-0471

Anne van Kesteren discovered that incorrect multibyte octet
decoding may lead to cross-site scripting.

CVE-2012-0477

Masato Kinugawa discovered that incorrect encoding of
Korean and Chinese character sets may lead to cross-site scripting.

CVE-2012-0479

Jeroen van der Gun discovered a spoofing vulnerability in the
presentation of Atom and RSS feeds over HTTPS.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.11-1+squeeze9.

For the unstable d...

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Package: icedove
CVE ID: CVE-2012-0467 CVE-2012-0470 CVE-2012-0471 CVE-2012-0477

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