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[ GLSA 200507-17 ] Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
From: Thierry Carrez <koon () gentoo org>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:41:04 +0200
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: July 18, 2005 Bugs: #98855 ID: 200507-17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== Several vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird allow attacks ranging from execution of script code with elevated privileges to information leak. Background ========== Mozilla Thunderbird is the next-generation mail client from the Mozilla project. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mozilla-thunderbird < 1.0.5 >= 1.0.5 2 mozilla-thunderbird-bin < 1.0.5 >= 1.0.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Description =========== The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird: * "moz_bug_r_a4" and "shutdown" discovered that Thunderbird was improperly cloning base objects (MFSA 2005-56). * "moz_bug_r_a4" also reported that Thunderbird was overly trusting contents, allowing privilege escalation via property overrides (MFSA 2005-41, 2005-44), that it failed to validate XHTML DOM nodes properly (MFSA 2005-55), and that XBL scripts ran even when Javascript is disabled (MFSA 2005-46). * "shutdown" discovered a possibly exploitable crash in InstallVersion.compareTo (MFSA 2005-50). * Andreas Sandblad from Secunia reported that a child frame can call top.focus() even if the framing page comes from a different origin and has overridden the focus() routine (MFSA 2005-52). * Georgi Guninski reported missing Install object instance checks in the native implementations of XPInstall-related JavaScript objects (MFSA 2005-40). * Finally, Vladimir V. Perepelitsa discovered a memory disclosure bug in JavaScript's regular expression string replacement when using an anonymous function as the replacement argument (CAN-2005-0989 and MFSA 2005-33). Impact ====== A remote attacker could craft malicious email messages that would leverage these issues to inject and execute arbitrary script code with elevated privileges or help in stealing information. Workaround ========== There are no known workarounds for all the issues at this time. Resolution ========== All Mozilla Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.5" All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.0.5" References ========== [ 1 ] Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Thunderbird [ 2 ] CAN-2005-0989 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0989 Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-17.xml Concerns? ========= Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security () gentoo org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org. License ======= Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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