Scientific Linux: SLSA-2015:0048-1 Critical: Firefox Security Patch

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:58:42 +0000
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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-2015:0047-1
Issue Date: 2015-01-13
CVE Numbers: CVE-2014-8634
 CVE-2014-8638
 CVE-2014-8639
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Two flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web
page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
running Firefox. (CVE-2014-8634, CVE-2014-8639)

It was found that the Beacon interface implementation in Thunderbird did
not follow the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) specification. A web
page containing malicious content could allow a remote attacker to conduct
a Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF) attack. (CVE-2014-8638)

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-31.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
SL6
 x86_64
 thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team