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Red Hat 4 & 5: RHSA-2010:0682-01 Moderate: Thunderbird Security Fix

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Cautious notice delivered for lightning bolt application upgrade, focusing on vital safety patches for Fedora platforms.
An updated thunderbird package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML mail content. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-3169)
A buffer overflow flaw was found in Thunderbird. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-2765)
A use-after-free flaw and several dangling pointer flaws were found in Thunderbird. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-2760, CVE-2010-2767, CVE-2010-3167, CVE-2010-3168)
A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in Thunderbird. Remote HTML content could cause Thunderbird to execute JavaScript code with the permissions of different remote HTML content. (CVE-2010-2768)
Note: JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird. None of the above issues are exploitable unless JavaScript is enabled.
All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues. All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update red hat system patch thunderbird mail client

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2760 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2765 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2767 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2768 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3167 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3168 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3169 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
i386: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.i386.rpm
ia64: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.ia64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.ia64.rpm
ppc: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.ppc.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.ppc.rpm
s390: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.s390.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.s390.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:
Source:
i386: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:
Source:
i386: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.i386.rpm
ia64: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.ia64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.ia64.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.12-30.el4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4:
Source:
i386: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.i386.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0682-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0682.html
Issue date: 2010-09-07

Topic

An updated thunderbird package that fixes several security issues is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update red hat system patch thunderbird mail client

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

630055 - CVE-2010-3169 Mozilla Miscellaneous memory safety hazards

630056 - CVE-2010-2765 Mozilla Frameset integer overflow vulnerability (MFSA 2010-50)

630059 - CVE-2010-2767 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability using DOM plugin array (MFSA 2010-51)

630062 - CVE-2010-2760 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeSelection (MFSA 2010-54)

630064 - CVE-2010-3168 Mozilla XUL tree removal crash and remote code execution (MFSA 2010-55)

630067 - CVE-2010-3167 Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeContentView (MFSA 2010-56)

630074 - CVE-2010-2768 Mozilla UTF-7 XSS by overriding document charset using type attribute (MFSA 2010-61)

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