Slackware: 2007-324-01 Critical: Mozilla-Thunderbird Memory Issues
slackware
November 21, 2007
New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.9-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-2.0.0.9. This update fixes the following security related issues: URIs with invalid %-encoding mishandled by Windows (MFSA 2007-36). Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2007-29). OK, so the first one obviously does not affect us. :-) The second fix has to do with the same JavaScript handling problem fixed before in Firefox. JavaScript is not enabled by default in Thunderbird, and the developers (at least in MFSA 2007-36) do not recommend turning it on. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2007-36/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2007-29/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4841 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5339 (* Security fix *)
Where Find New Packages
HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com?
Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site
for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading
directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 10.2 package:
fd730e111b09e13d1f655ce18681dceb mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.9-i686-1.tgz
Slackware 11.0 package:
fd730e111b09e13d1f655ce18681dceb mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.9-i686-1.tgz
Slackware 12.0 package:
fd730e111b09e13d1f655ce18681dceb mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.9-i686-1.tgz
Slackware -current package:
7b5396dcb1aa23b2fd867177cf905853 mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.6-i686-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Stop Thunderbird. Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.6-i686-1.tgz Restart Thunderbird.
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