Scientific Linux Thunderbird Important Memory Flaw Exploits CVE-2010-0175

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:28:30 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: thunderbird on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Critical: thunderbird security update
Issue date:	2010-07-20
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-0174 CVE-2010-0175 CVE-2010-0176
 CVE-2010-0177 CVE-2010-1197 CVE-2010-1198
 CVE-2010-1199 CVE-2010-1200 CVE-2010-1205
 CVE-2010-1211 CVE-2010-1214 CVE-2010-2753
 CVE-2010-2754

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

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-6.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-6.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-6.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson