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Debian 4.0 DSA-1485-1 Important: Icedove Remote Vulnerabilities Found

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Calendar Grey February 10, 2008
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Security loopholes in the Thunderbird email application discovered and resolved. Users are urged to update their stable Ubuntu versions.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird client

Summary


Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul
Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might allow
the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-0413

Carsten Book, Wesley Garland, Igor Bukanov, "moz_bug_r_a4", "shutdown",
Philip Taylor and "tgirmann" discovered crashes in the Javascript
engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-0415

"moz_bug_r_a4" and Boris Zbarsky discovered discovered several
vulnerabilities in Javascript handling, which could allow
privilege escalation.

CVE-2008-0418

Gerry Eisenhaur and "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered that a directory
traversal vulnerability in chrome: URI handling could lead to
information disclosure.

CVE-2008-0419

David Bloom discovered a race condition in the image handling of
designMode elements, which can lead to information disclosure or
potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-0591

Michal Zalewski di...

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