GLSA 200606-21: Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	06/19/2006
Bugs:	#135256
ID:	200606-21

Synopsis

Several vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird allow cross site scripting, JavaScript privilege escalation and possibly execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Mozilla Thunderbird is the next-generation mail client from the Mozilla project.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird	< 1.5.0.4	>= 1.5.0.4	All supported architectures
mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin	< 1.5.0.4	>= 1.5.0.4	All supported architectures

Description

Several vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird. For details, please consult the references below.

Impact

A remote attacker could craft malicious emails that would leverage these issues to inject and execute arbitrary script code with elevated privileges, spoof content, and possibly execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the application.

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-1.5.0.4"

All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.5.0.4"

Note: There is no stable fixed version for the Alpha architecture yet. Users of Mozilla Thunderbird on Alpha should consider unmerging it until such a version is available.

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200606-21.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 https://bugs.gentoo.org.