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Moderate Security Update for Thunderbird in Scientific Linux SL4 & SL5

Calendar Oct 29, 2010 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate code execution thunderbird crash SL5 SL4
Moderate: thunderbird security update 
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:37:51 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
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:	2010-10-28
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-3765

A race condition flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled Document
Object Model (DOM) element properties. 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-2010-3765)

Note: JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird. The
CVE-2010-3765 issue is not exploitable unless JavaScript is enabled.

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

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-33.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-33.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-33.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-10.el5_5.src.rpm
 i386:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-10.el5_5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-10.el5_5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
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