Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
1.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Version Information
| Advisory Reference |
GLSA 200507-17 / thunderbird |
| Release Date |
July 18, 2005 |
| Latest Revision |
July 18, 2005: 01 |
| Impact |
normal |
| Exploitable |
remote |
| Package |
Vulnerable versions |
Unaffected versions |
Architecture(s) |
| mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird |
<
1.0.5 |
>=
1.0.5 |
All supported architectures
|
| mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin |
<
1.0.5 |
>=
1.0.5 |
All supported architectures
|
Related bugreports:
#98855
Synopsis
Several vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird allow attacks ranging from
execution of script code with elevated privileges to information leak.
2.
Impact Information
Background
Mozilla Thunderbird is the next-generation mail client from the
Mozilla project.
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.
3.
Resolution 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:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.5"
|
All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the
latest version:
Code Listing 3.2: Resolution |
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.0.5"
|
4.
References
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