Scientific Linux: Moderate Advisory for Thunderbird Cross-Site Scripting

Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:24:20 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for thunderbird on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: thunderbird security update
Issue date:	2007-12-19
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-5947 CVE-2007-5959 CVE-2007-5960

A cross-site scripting flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled the
jar: URI scheme. It may be possible for a malicious HTML mail message to
leverage this flaw, and conduct a cross-site scripting attack against a
user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2007-5947)

Several flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed certain malformed
HTML mail content. A HTML mail message containing malicious content could
cause Thunderbird to crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code as the
user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2007-5959)

A race condition existed when Thunderbird set the "window.location"
property when displaying HTML mail content. This flaw could allow a HTML
mail message to set an arbitrary Referer header, which may lead to a
Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack against websites that rely only on
the Referer header for protection. (CVE-2007-5960)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-7.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-7.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-7.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-7.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson