Fedora Core: 5 ThunderBird Critical Security Issues Identified

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Updated thunderbird packages that fix several security bugs

are now available for Fedora Core.

This update has been rated as having critical security

impact by the Fedora Security Response Team.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Several flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed

certain malformed JavaScript code. A web page containing

malicious JavaScript code could cause Thunderbird to crash

or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running

Thunderbird. (CVE-2007-2867, CVE-2007-2868)

Several denial of service flaws were found in the way

Thunderbird handled certain form and cookie data. A

malicious web site that is able to set arbitrary form and

cookie data could prevent Thunderbird from functioning

properly. (CVE-2007-1362, CVE-2007-2869)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird processed certain

APOP authentication requests. By sending certain responses

when Thunderbird attempted to authenticate against an APOP

server, a remote attacker could potentially acquire certain

portions of a user's authentication credentials. (CVE-2007-1558)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird displayed certain

web content. A malicious web page could generate content

which could overlay user interface elements such as the

hostname and security indicators, tricking users into

thinking they are visiting a different site. (CVE-2007-2871)

Users of Thunderbird are advised to apply this update, which

contains Thunderbird version 1.5.0.12 that corrects these

issues.

- Update to 1.5.0.12

* Thu Mar 1 2007 Martin Stransky 1.5.0.10-1

- Update to 1.5.0.10

* Tue Dec 19 2006 Matthias Clasen 1.5.0.9-2

- Add a Requires: launchmail (#219884)

* Tue Dec 19 2006 Christopher Aillon 1.5.0.9-1

- Update to 1.5.0.9

- Take firefox's pango fixes

- Don't offer to import...nothing.

* Tue Nov 7 2006 Christopher Aillon 1.5.0.8-1

- Update to 1.5.0.8

- Allow choosing of download directory

- Take the user to the correct directory from the Download Manager.

- Patch to add support for printing via pango from Behdad.

* Sun Oct 8 2006 Christopher Aillon - 1.5.0.7-4

- Default to use of system colors

* Wed Oct 4 2006 Christopher Aillon - 1.5.0.7-3

- Bring the invisible character to parity with GTK+

* Wed Sep 27 2006 Christopher Aillon - 1.5.0.7-2

- Fix crash when changing gtk key theme

- Prevent UI freezes while changing GNOME theme

- Remove verbiage about pango; no longer required by upstream.

* Wed Sep 13 2006 Christopher Aillon - 1.5.0.7-1

- Update to 1.5.0.7

* Thu Sep 7 2006 Christopher Aillon - 1.5.0.5-8

- Shuffle order of the install phase around

* Thu Sep 7 2006 Christopher Aillon - 1.5.0.5-7

- Let there be art for Alt+Tab again

- s/tbdir/mozappdir/g

* Wed Sep 6 2006 Christopher Aillon - 1.5.0.5-6

- Fix for cursor position in editor widgets by tagoh and behdad (#198759)

* Tue Sep 5 2006 Christopher Aillon - 1.5.0.5-5

- Update nopangoxft.patch

- Fix rendering of MathML thanks to Behdad Esfahbod.

- Update start page text to reflect the MathML fixes.

- Enable pango by default on all locales

- Build using -rpath

- Re-enable GCC visibility

* Thu Aug 3 2006 Kai Engert - 1.5.0.5-4

- Fix a build failure in mailnews mime code.

* Tue Aug 1 2006 Matthias Clasen - 1.5.0.5-3

- Rebuild

* Thu Jul 27 2006 Christopher Aillon - 1.5.0.5-2

- Update to 1.5.0.5

* Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating - 1.5.0.4-2.1

- rebuild

* Mon Jun 12 2006 Kai Engert - 1.5.0.4-2

- Update to 1.5.0.4

- Fix desktop-file-utils requires

9d6bcf40d81d9d0f281ff9e934ccde1636a82ad2 SRPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-1.fc5.src.rpm

9d6bcf40d81d9d0f281ff9e934ccde1636a82ad2 noarch/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-1.fc5.src.rpm

ae8c17a9b856514272d3ad2c55a329717e9cb72b ppc/debug/thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-1.fc5.ppc.rpm

005323944a0e7ff4a66361b59746228ab5f5a161 ppc/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-1.fc5.ppc.rpm

c29fb2dff816698d248fe2138cd4455bb9c1cb85 x86_64/debug/thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm

3a1694d8866f0a4ddf6c06eec6b528f4e4dde4b9 x86_64/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm

8bb7e372c859690a4f8ca6a4f8944ee3d20d5c96 i386/debug/thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-1.fc5.i386.rpm

d1baff4693caacf1896eebf6c06551a58293a886 i386/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-1.fc5.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update

package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing

Software with yum,' available at .

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