Sridhar Samudrala discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the handling of SCTP sockets. By opening such a socket with a special SO_LINGER value, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-4535) Kirill Korotaev discovered that the ELF loader on the ia64 and sparc platforms did not sufficiently verify the memory layout. By attempting to execute a specially crafted executable, a local user could exploit this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-4538)
Tavis Ormandy discovered that gzip did not sufficiently verify the validity of gzip or compress archives while unpacking. By tricking an user or automated system into unpacking a specially crafted compressed file, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
This update upgrades Thunderbird from 1.0.8 to 1.5.0.7. This step was necessary since the 1.0.x series is not supported by upstream any more. Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening
a malicious email containing JavaScript. Please note that JavaScript is disabled by default for emails, and it is not recommended to enable it. The following CVEIDs have been addressed: CVE-2006-3113, CVE-2006-3802, CVE-2006-3803, CVE-2006-3805, CVE-2006-3806, CVE-2006-3807, CVE-2006-3809, CVE-2006-3810, CVE-2006-3811, CVE-2006-3812, CVE-2006-4253, CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566, CVE-2006-4571 CVE-2006-3804, CVE-2006-4340, CVE-2006-4567, CVE-2006-4570
Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious web page containing JavaScript. The following CVEIDs have been addressed: CVE-2006-4253, CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566, CVE-2006-4568, CVE-2006-4569, CVE-2006-4571, CVE-2006-4340, CVE-2006-4567
Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious email containing JavaScript. Please note that JavaScript is disabled by default for emails, and it is not recommended to enable
it. The following CVEIDs have been addressed: CVE-2006-4253, CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566, CVE-2006-4571, CVE-2006-4340, CVE-2006-4567, CVE-2006-4570
Dr. Henson of the OpenSSL core team and Open Network Security discovered a mishandled error condition in the ASN.1 parser. By sending specially crafted packet data, a remote attacker could exploit this to trigger an infinite loop, which would render the service unusable and consume all available system memory. (CVE-2006-2937) Certain types of public key could take disproportionate amounts of time to process. The library now limits the maximum key exponent size to avoid Denial of Service attacks. (CVE-2006-2940) Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow in the SSL_get_shared_ciphers() function. By sending specially crafted packets to applications that use this function (like Exim, MySQL, or the openssl command line tool), a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the server's privileges. (CVE-2006-3738) Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team reported that the get_server_hello() function did not sufficiently check the
client's session certificate. This could be exploited to crash clients by remote attackers sending specially crafted SSL responses. (CVE-2006-4343)
Will Drewry, of the Google Security Team, discovered buffer overflows in GDB's DWARF processing. This would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into using GDB to load an executable that contained malicious debugging
information.
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