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Debian: DSA-868-1 Critical: Mozilla Thunderbird Remote Exploits Threat

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2005
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Essential update required for Mozilla Thunderbird to address various external security vulnerabilities. Ensure your safety!
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Summary


Tom Ferris discovered a bug in the IDN hostname handling of
Mozilla that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
and possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with dashes.

CAN-2005-2701

A buffer overflow allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary
code via an XBM image file that ends in a large number of spaces
instead of the expected end tag.

CAN-2005-2702

Mats Palmgren discovered a buffer overflow in the Unicode string
parser that allowas a specially crafted unicode sequences to
overflow a buffer and cause arbitrary code to be executed.

CAN-2005-2703

Remote attackers could spoof HTTP headers of XML HTTP requests
via XMLHttpRequest and possibly use the client to exploit
vulnerabilities in servers or proxies.

CAN-2005-2704

Remote attackers could spoof DOM objects via an XBL control that
implements an internal XPCOM interface.

CAN-2005-2705

Georgi Guninski discovered an integer overflow in the J...

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