SciLinux Advisory: SLSA-2013:1823-1 Critical: Thunderbird XSS Risk

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:38:38 -0600
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: thunderbird on SL5.x, i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2013:1823-1
Issue Date: 2013-12-11
CVE Numbers: CVE-2013-5609
 CVE-2013-5612
 CVE-2013-5614
 CVE-2013-5616
 CVE-2013-5618
 CVE-2013-6671
 CVE-2013-5613
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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-2013-5609, CVE-2013-5616, CVE-2013-5618, CVE-2013-6671,
CVE-2013-5613)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird rendered web content with missing
character encoding information. An attacker could use this flaw to
possibly bypass same-origin inheritance and perform cross site-scripting
(XSS) attacks. (CVE-2013-5612)

It was found that certain malicious web content could bypass restrictions
applied by sandboxed iframes. An attacker could combine this flaw with
other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-5614)

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-24.2.0-2.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-24.2.0-2.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-24.2.0-2.el5_10.i386.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-24.2.0-2.el5_10.i386.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team