SciLinux: CVE-2012-1956 Critical: Thunderbird SL5.x and SL6.x Updates

Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:36:29 -0500
Reply-To: Pat Riehecky 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Organization: Fermilab
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Critical: thunderbird security update
Issue Date: 2012-10-09
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-1956
 CVE-2012-3982
 CVE-2012-3986
 CVE-2012-3988
 CVE-2012-3991
 CVE-2012-3994
 CVE-2012-3993
 CVE-2012-4184
 CVE-2012-3992
 CVE-2012-3995
 CVE-2012-4179
 CVE-2012-4180
 CVE-2012-4181
 CVE-2012-4182
 CVE-2012-4183
 CVE-2012-4185
 CVE-2012-4186
 CVE-2012-4187
 CVE-2012-4188
 CVE-2012-3990
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed content. Malicious
content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-3982,
CVE-2012-3988, CVE-2012-3990, CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179, CVE-2012-4180,
CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182, CVE-2012-4183, CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186,
CVE-2012-4187, CVE-2012-4188)

Two flaws in Thunderbird could allow malicious content to bypass intended
restrictions, possibly leading to information disclosure, or Thunderbird
executing arbitrary code. Note that the information disclosure issue could
possibly be combined with other flaws to achieve arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2012-3986, CVE-2012-3991)

Multiple flaws were found in the location object implementation in
Thunderbird. Malicious content could be used to perform cross-site
scripting attacks, script injection, or spoofing attacks. (CVE-2012-1956,
CVE-2012-3992, CVE-2012-3994)

Two flaws were found in the way Chrome Object Wrappers were implemented.
Malicious content could be used to perform cross-site scripting attacks or
cause Thunderbird to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-4184)

Note: None of the issues in this advisory can be exploited by a
specially-crafted HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default
for mail messages. They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for
example, when viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.

After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the
changes to
take effect.
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SL5
 x86_64
 thunderbird-10.0.8-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-10.0.8-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
SL6
 x86_64
 thunderbird-10.0.8-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-10.0.8-1.el6_3.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team