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Debian DSA-3092-1 Moderate: Icedove Memory Issues and Risks

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Calendar Grey December 7, 2014
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Debian recommends that users perform an upgrade of Icedove to address several severe security vulnerabilities, which may lead to unauthorized code execution.
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, use-after-fr...

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, use-after-frees and other implementation errorsmay lead to the execution of arbitrary code, the bypass of security
restrictions or denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 31.3.0-1~deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems will be
fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 31.3.0-1.

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: https://www.debian.org/security/



Severity
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Package: icedove
CVE ID: CVE-2014-1587 CVE-2014-1590 CVE-2014-1592 CVE-2014-1593

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