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Fedora Core 6 Update: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-2.fc6 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. Several flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed certain malformed JavaScript code. A malicious HTML email message containing JavaScript code could cause Thunderbird to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird; these issues are not exploitable unless the user has enabled JavaScript.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-641
2007-07-20
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Product     : Fedora Core 6
Name        : thunderbird
Version     : 1.5.0.12
Release     : 2.fc6
Summary     : Mozilla Thunderbird mail/newsgroup client
Description :
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

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Update Information:

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Several flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed
certain malformed JavaScript code. A malicious HTML email
message containing JavaScript code could cause Thunderbird
to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user
running Thunderbird. JavaScript support is disabled by
default in Thunderbird; these issues are not exploitable
unless the user has enabled JavaScript. (CVE-2007-3089,
CVE-2007-3734, CVE-2007-3735, CVE-2007-3736, CVE-2007-3737,
CVE-2007-3738)

Users of Thunderbird are advised to upgrade to these erratum
packages, which contain backported patches that correct
these issues.
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* Fri Jul 20 2007 Kai Engert  - 1.5.0.12-2
- Add a patch to stick with major versions 1.5.0.12 / 1.8.0.12
- Update to latest snapshot of Mozilla 1.8.0 branch
- Include patches for Mozilla bugs 379245, 384925, 178993,
  381300 (+382686), 358594 (+380933), 382532 (+382503)

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

19679f423d4041bff14fb1296301658dfc6ba2ba  SRPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-2.fc6.src.rpm
19679f423d4041bff14fb1296301658dfc6ba2ba  noarch/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-2.fc6.src.rpm
67e87bd1475f0de8294cf57d976ec342bd8a7c5b  ppc/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-2.fc6.ppc.rpm
98431b993e118b0fe00a2599e645a33ad6522c49  ppc/debug/thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-2.fc6.ppc.rpm
c2156643405b7c671a93a2264ab958fd5f0fd944  x86_64/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm
e3b6835f0a8f7eb4835c1302e967ed008ecd1575  x86_64/debug/thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm
bfeab692e49e51d7d0b541ca68965ab1500a6606  i386/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-2.fc6.i386.rpm
a0c642b01715286f1ced7a1f49a8d11b2f924577  i386/debug/thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-2.fc6.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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