SciLinux: 2010-10-19 Moderate: Thunderbird Code Execution Risk

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:34:12 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
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From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: thunderbird on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: thunderbird security update
Issue date:	2010-10-19
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-3176 CVE-2010-3180 CVE-2010-3182

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-2010-3176, CVE-2010-3180)

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 script that launches Thunderbird. The
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable was appending a "." character, which could
allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
a different user running Thunderbird, if that user ran Thunderbird from
within an attacker-controlled directory. (CVE-2010-3182)

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

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-31.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-31.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-31.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-9.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-9.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-9.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson