[SECURITY] Fedora Core 4 Update: thunderbird-1.0.8-1.1.fc4

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed May 3 19:03:17 UTC 2006


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-489
2006-05-03
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Product     : Fedora Core 4
Name        : thunderbird
Version     : 1.0.8                      
Release     : 1.1.fc4                  
Summary     : Mozilla Thunderbird mail/newsgroup client
Description :
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

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Update Information:

Updated thunderbird packages that fix various bugs are now
available for Fedora Core 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security
impact by the Fedora Security Response Team.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Several bugs were found in the way Thunderbird processes
malformed javascript. A malicious HTML mail message could
modify the content of a different open HTML mail message,
possibly stealing sensitive information or conducting a
cross-site scripting attack. Please note that JavaScript
support is disabled by default in Thunderbird.
(CVE-2006-1731, CVE-2006-1732, CVE-2006-1741)

Several bugs were found in the way Thunderbird processes
certain javascript actions. A malicious HTML mail message
could execute arbitrary javascript instructions with the
permissions of 'chrome', allowing the page to steal
sensitive information or install browser malware. Please
note that JavaScript support is disabled by default in
Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-0292, CVE-2006-0296, CVE-2006-1727,
CVE-2006-1728, CVE-2006-1733, CVE-2006-1734, CVE-2006-1735,
CVE-2006-1742)

Several bugs were found in the way Thunderbird processes
malformed HTML mail messages. A carefully crafted malicious
HTML mail message could cause the execution of arbitrary
code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-0748,
CVE-2006-0749, CVE-2006-1724, CVE-2006-1730, CVE-2006-1737,
CVE-2006-1738, CVE-2006-1739, CVE-2006-1790)

A bug was found in the way Thunderbird processes certain
inline content in HTML mail messages. It may be possible for
a remote attacker to send a carefully crafted mail message
to the victim, which will fetch remote content, even if
Thunderbird is configured not to fetch remote content.
(CVE-2006-1045)

A bug was found in the way Thunderbird executes in-line mail
forwarding. If a user can be tricked into forwarding a
maliciously crafted mail message as in-line content, it is
possible for the message to execute javascript with the
permissions of "chrome". (CVE-2006-0884)

Users of Thunderbird are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages containing Thunderbird version 1.0.8, which is not
vulnerable to these issues.

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* Wed Apr 19 2006 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 1.0.8-1.1.fc4
- Update to 1.0.8

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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

7d0be6f68920d11fea4104a06cd03d5849c95005  SRPMS/thunderbird-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.src.rpm
ecac8c7c6f8097f1a1ed1e5e5a4aa38bdcbf8294  ppc/thunderbird-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.ppc.rpm
8cf3a7c1999cc1c97cfbc861455bf181ffc23e42  ppc/debug/thunderbird-debuginfo-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.ppc.rpm
81e6434b2c0949fd37c0c86d1ad1b492eedc8760  x86_64/thunderbird-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.x86_64.rpm
a9d48d6afda88e8ce5ba514112765d945ba38bd3  x86_64/debug/thunderbird-debuginfo-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.x86_64.rpm
739ff0c09be68c513d577c1f7a0b7abcb7ccdf33  i386/thunderbird-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.i386.rpm
66a5f5e4463926d52f97011295b70046435d2678  i386/debug/thunderbird-debuginfo-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.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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