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Mandriva: Updated mozilla-thunderbird packages fix numerous vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client that could allow a remote attacker to craft malicious web emails that could take advantage of these issues to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges, spoof content, and steal local files, or other nformation.
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDKSA-2006:078
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Package : mozilla-thunderbird
 Date    : April 25, 2006
 Affected: 2006.0
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Problem Description:
 
 A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Mozilla
 Thunderbird email client that could allow a remote attacker to craft
 malicious web emails that could take advantage of these issues to
 execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges, spoof content, and
 steal local files, or other information.  As well, some of these
 vulnerabilities can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the
 privileges of the user running the program.
 
 As well, two crasher bugs have been fixed as well.
 
 The updated packages have been patched to fix these problems.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:
 
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0292
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0296
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0748
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0749
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0884
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1045
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1727
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1728
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1730
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1731
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1732
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1733
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1734
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1735
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1737
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1738
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1739
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1741
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1742
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1790
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275896
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330900
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Updated Packages:
 
 Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
 db1cb3f95a9ed5c38eadf84ab15059dd  2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 4ac317574cda9d575725e2001c106c64  2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail-1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 c9788a8baa83accaa38a6962d019be16  2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmime-1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 898658630b23e73046c50de78ae364b1  2006.0/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
 6ceb2686941e208c141d1a339dd87f85  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 57637d19befac214ef7c4c2cef84462d  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail-1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 f08fe4796dd84bbb9414668f55cbb2b9  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmime-1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 898658630b23e73046c50de78ae364b1  x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk.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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