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Debian: DSA-2924-1 Critical: Icedove Memory Errors and Exploits

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2014
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Recent updates on Icedove reveal security vulnerabilities affecting Debian systems, including memory management flaws that may lead to exploits via crafted emails.
Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian's version of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and news client: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows, missing perm...

Summary

Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian's version
of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and news client: Multiple memory safety
errors, buffer overflows, missing permission checks, out of bound reads,
use-after-frees and other implementation errors may lead to the
execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, cross-site scripting
or denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 24.5.0-1~deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 24.5.0-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 24.5.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your icedove packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: icedove
CVE ID: CVE-2014-1518 CVE-2014-1523 CVE-2014-1524 CVE-2014-1529

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