Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 1191-1] New Mozilla Thunderbird packages fix several vulnerabilities
[SECURITY] [DSA 1191-1] New Mozilla Thunderbird packages fix several vulnerabilities
From: Martin Schulze <joey_at_infodrom.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:14:30 +0200 (CEST)
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1191-1 security_at_debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
October 5th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : mozilla-thunderbird
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE IDs : CVE-2006-2788 CVE-2006-4340 CVE-2006-4565 CVE-2006-4566
CVE-2006-4568 CVE-2006-4570 CVE-2006-4571
BugTraq ID : 20042
Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla and
derived products such as Mozilla Thunderbird. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
vulnerabilities:
CVE-2006-2788
Fernando Ribeiro discovered that a vulnerability in the getRawDER
functionallows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(hang) and possibly execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2006-4340
Daniel Bleichenbacher recently described an implementation error
in RSA signature verification that cause the application to
incorrectly trust SSL certificates.
CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566
Priit Laes reported that that a JavaScript regular expression can
trigger a heap-based buffer overflow which allows remote attackers
to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2006-4568
A vulnerability has been discovered that allows remote attackers
to bypass the security model and inject content into the sub-frame
of another site.
CVE-2006-4570
Georgi Guninski demonstrated that even with JavaScript disabled in
mail (the default) an attacker can still execute JavaScript when a
mail message is viewed, replied to, or forwarded.
CVE-2006-4571
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Firefox, Thunderbird and
SeaMonkey allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service,
corrupt memory, and possibly execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8c.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5.0.7-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your Mozilla Thunderbird packages.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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