Scientific Linux: SLSA-2013:1269-1 Important: Thunderbird Security Issues

Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:59:29 +0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: thunderbird on SL5.x,
 SL6.x i386/srpm/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2013:1269-1
Issue Date: 2013-09-17
CVE Numbers: CVE-2013-1718
 CVE-2013-1725
 CVE-2013-1730
 CVE-2013-1736
 CVE-2013-1737
 CVE-2013-1735
 CVE-2013-1732
 CVE-2013-1722
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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-2013-1718, CVE-2013-1722, CVE-2013-1725, CVE-2013-1730,
CVE-2013-1732, CVE-2013-1735, CVE-2013-1736)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled certain DOM JavaScript
objects. An attacker could use this flaw to make JavaScript client or add-
on code make incorrect, security sensitive decisions. (CVE-2013-1737)

Note: All of the above issues cannot 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-17.0.9-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.9-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-17.0.9-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.9-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
 srpm
 thunderbird-17.0.9-1.el5_9.src.rpm
 noarch
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.9-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.9-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
SL6
 x86_64
 thunderbird-17.0.9-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.9-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
 srpm
 thunderbird-17.0.9-1.el6_4.src.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-17.0.9-1.el6_4.i686.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.9-1.el6_4.i686.rpm
 noarch
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.9-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.9-1.el6_4.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team