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Mandriva: Updated mozilla-thunderbird packages fix vulnerability Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake The WYSIWYG rendering engine in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 and earlier allows user-complicit attackers to bypass javascript security settings and obtain sensitive information or cause a crash via an e-mail containing a javascript URI in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME tag, which is executed when the user edits the e-mail/
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDKSA-2006:052
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Package : mozilla-thunderbird
 Date    : March 2, 2006
 Affected: 2006.0
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Problem Description:
 
 The WYSIWYG rendering engine in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 and earlier
 allows user-complicit attackers to bypass javascript security settings
 and obtain sensitive information or cause a crash via an e-mail
 containing a javascript URI in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME tag,
 which is executed when the user edits the e-mail.
 
 Updated packages have been patched to address this issue.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:
 
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0884
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Updated Packages:
 
 Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
 646abf3bc3c25a904498d9541dea7a58  2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-7.5.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 2c68bd202ca52fe8cf1b029f0230c594  2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail-1.0.6-7.5.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 e0d0c47265afb383f57e6f4ac7fa06d1  2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmime-1.0.6-7.5.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 0be8e091708def590ae501da074072d9  2006.0/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-7.5.20060mdk.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
 d247e98e223e3fcb1a8580035d6bb064  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-7.5.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 6fef56fe569049c4f543d3cd69c83615  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail-1.0.6-7.5.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 2dcbb24281171d71e78116d5f336b995  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmime-1.0.6-7.5.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 0be8e091708def590ae501da074072d9  x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-7.5.20060mdk.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  
 
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