Date:         Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:27:22 -0600
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
Comments: To: "scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov"
          

Synopsis:	Moderate: thunderbird security update
Issue date:	2009-01-07
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-5500 CVE-2008-5501 CVE-2008-5502
                   CVE-2008-5503 CVE-2008-5506 CVE-2008-5507
                   CVE-2008-5508 CVE-2008-5511 CVE-2008-5512
                   CVE-2008-5513


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 as the user running
Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-5500, CVE-2008-5501, CVE-2008-5502, CVE-2008-5511,
CVE-2008-5512, CVE-2008-5513)

Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. An
HTML mail message containing specially-crafted content could potentially
trick a Thunderbird user into surrendering sensitive information.
(CVE-2008-5503, CVE-2008-5506, CVE-2008-5507)

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

A flaw was found in the way malformed URLs were processed by
Thunderbird. This flaw could prevent various URL sanitization mechanisms
from properly parsing a malicious URL. (CVE-2008-5508)

All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to take 
effect.

SL 4.x

     SRPMS:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-18.el4.src.rpm
     i386:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-18.el4.i386.rpm
     x86_64:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-18.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

     SRPMS:
thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.el5_2.src.rpm
     i386:
thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.el5_2.i386.rpm
     x86_64:
thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson