Fedora 8: FEDORA-2008-6706 Moderate: Thunderbird Code Execution Risk

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Updated thunderbird packages that fix several security issues are now available

for Fedora 8. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML

content. An HTML mail containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to

crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird.

(CVE-2008-2785, CVE-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2811) Multiple flaws

were found in the processing of malformed JavaScript content. An HTML mail

containing such malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or,

potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird.

(CVE-2008-2802, CVE-2008-2803) A flaw was found in the way a malformed

.properties file was processed by Thunderbird. A malicious extension could read

uninitialized memory, possibly leaking sensitive data to the extension.

(CVE-2008-2807) A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird displayed information

about self-signed certificates. It was possible for a self-signed certificate to

contain multiple alternate name entries, which were not all displayed to the

user, allowing them to mistakenly extend trust to an unknown site.

(CVE-2008-2809) Thunderbird was updated to upstream version 2.0.0.16 to

address these flaws: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird-2.0/

* Wed Jul 23 2008 Christopher Aillon 2.0.0.16-1

- Update to 2.0.0.16

* Thu May 1 2008 Christopher Aillon 2.0.0.14-1

- Update to 2.0.0.14

* Fri Mar 7 2008 Martin Stransky

- updated starting script, fixes #436410

* Tue Feb 26 2008 Christopher Aillon 2.0.0.12-1

- Update to 2.0.0.12

* Thu Nov 15 2007 Christopher Aillon 2.0.0.9-1

- Update to 2.0.0.9

[ 1 ] Bug #452600 - CVE-2008-2802 Firefox arbitrary JavaScript code execution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452600

[ 2 ] Bug #452597 - CVE-2008-2798 Firefox malformed web content flaws

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452597

[ 3 ] Bug #453007 - CVE-2008-2811 Firefox block reflow flaw

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453007

[ 4 ] Bug #452709 - CVE-2008-2807 Firefox .properties memory leak

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452709

[ 5 ] Bug #452711 - CVE-2008-2809 Firefox self signed certificate flaw

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452711

[ 6 ] Bug #452602 - CVE-2008-2803 Firefox javascript arbitrary code execution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452602

[ 7 ] Bug #452598 - CVE-2008-2799 Firefox javascript arbitrary code execution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452598

[ 8 ] Bug #452204 - CVE-2008-2785 mozilla: CSS reference counter overflow (ZDI-CAN-349)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452204

su -c 'yum update thunderbird' at the command line.

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