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Red Hat 5: RHSA-2010:0545-01 Critical: Thunderbirds Memory Flaw

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An important revision for Thunderbird on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 resolves various vulnerabilities and shortcomings.
An updated thunderbird package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
A memory corruption flaw was found in the way Thunderbird decoded certain PNG images. An attacker could create a mail message containing a specially-crafted PNG image that, when opened, could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-1205)
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML mail content. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-0174, CVE-2010-1200, CVE-2010-1211, CVE-2010-1214, CVE-2010-2753)
An integer overflow flaw was found in the processing of malformed HTML mail content. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-1199)
Several use-after-free flaws were found in Thunderbird. Viewing an HTML mail message containing malicious content could result in Thunderbird executing arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-0175, CVE-2010-0176, CVE-2010-0177)
A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird plug-ins interact. It was possible for a plug-in to reference the freed memory from a different plug-in, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-1198)
A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled the "Content-Disposition: attachment" HTTP header when the "Content-Type: multipart" HTTP header was also present. Loading remote HTTP content that allows arbitrary uploads and relies on the "Content-Disposition: attachment" HTTP header to prevent content from being displayed inline, could be used by an attacker to serve malicious content to users. (CVE-2010-1197)
A same-origin policy bypass flaw was found in Thunderbird. Remote HTML content could steal private data from different remote HTML content Thunderbird has loaded. (CVE-2010-2754)
All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues. All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to take effect.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0174 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0175 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0176 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0177 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1197 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1198 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1199 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1200 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1205 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1211 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1214 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2753 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2754 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: thunderbird-2.0.0.24-6.el5.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-2.0.0.24-6.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-2.0.0.24-6.el5.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-2.0.0.24-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: thunderbird-2.0.0.24-6.el5.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-2.0.0.24-6.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-2.0.0.24-6.el5.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-2.0.0.24-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0545-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2010-07-20

Topic

An updated thunderbird package that fixes several security issues is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

578147 - CVE-2010-0174 Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption

578149 - CVE-2010-0175 Mozilla remote code execution with use-after-free in nsTreeSelection

578150 - CVE-2010-0176 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeContentView

578152 - CVE-2010-0177 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsPluginArray

590804 - CVE-2010-1200 Mozilla Crashes with evidence of memory corruption

590828 - CVE-2010-1198 Mozilla Freed object reuse across plugin instances

590833 - CVE-2010-1199 Mozilla Integer Overflow in XSLT Node Sorting

590850 - CVE-2010-1197 Mozilla Content-Disposition: attachment ignored if Content-Type: multipart also present

608238 - CVE-2010-1205 libpng: out-of-bounds memory write

615455 - CVE-2010-1211 Mozilla miscellaneous memory safety hazards

615462 - CVE-2010-1214 Mozilla Plugin parameter EnsureCachedAttrParamArrays remote code execution vulnerability

615466 - CVE-2010-2753 Mozilla nsTreeSelection dangling pointer remote code execution vulnerability

615488 - CVE-2010-2754 Mozilla Cross-origin data leakage from script filename in error messages

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