Scientific Linux: Thunderbird CVE-2013-5591 Exposes Critical Data Risk

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:31:59 +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/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2013:1480-1
Issue Date: 2013-10-30
CVE Numbers: CVE-2013-5590
 CVE-2013-5595
 CVE-2013-5597
 CVE-2013-5599
 CVE-2013-5600
 CVE-2013-5601
 CVE-2013-5602
 CVE-2013-5604
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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-2013-5590, CVE-2013-5597, CVE-2013-5599, CVE-2013-5600,
CVE-2013-5601, CVE-2013-5602)

It was found that the Thunderbird JavaScript engine incorrectly allocated
memory for certain functions. An attacker could combine this flaw with
other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-5595)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled certain Extensible
Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) files. An attacker could
combine this flaw with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-5604)

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-17.0.10-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.10-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-17.0.10-1.el5_10.i386.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.10-1.el5_10.i386.rpm
SL6
 x86_64
 thunderbird-17.0.10-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.10-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-17.0.10-1.el6_4.i686.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.10-1.el6_4.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team
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