Scientific Linux: Moderate Advisory for ThunderBird HTML Flaws

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:40:23 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for thunderbird on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: thunderbird security update
Issue date:	2008-04-03
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1233 CVE-2008-1234 CVE-2008-1235
 CVE-2008-1236 CVE-2008-1237 CVE-2008-1238
 CVE-2008-1241

Several flaws were found in the processing of some malformed HTML mail
content. An HTML mail message containing such malicious content could
cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as
the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1235,
CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237)

Several flaws were found in the display of malformed web content. An
HTML mail message containing specially-crafted content could,
potentially, trick a user into surrendering sensitive information.
(CVE-2008-1234, CVE-2008-1238, CVE-2008-1241)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-10.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-10.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-10.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-11.el5_1.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-11.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-11.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson