Scientific Linux Thunderbird Moderate CVE-2008-1380 Security Update

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:07:50 -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:	2008-04-30
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1380

A flaw was found in the processing of malformed JavaScript 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-2008-1380)

Note: JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird; the above
issue is not exploitable unless JavaScript is enabled.

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-11.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-11.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-11.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-12.el5_1.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-12.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-12.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
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