1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200711-24 / mozilla-thunderbird mozilla-thunderbird-bin |
| Release Date | November 18, 2007 |
| Latest Revision | November 18, 2007: 01 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird | < 2.0.0.9 | >= 2.0.0.9 | All supported architectures |
| mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin | < 2.0.0.9 | >= 2.0.0.9 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #196481
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Thunderbird, which may allow user-assisted arbitrary remote code execution.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Thunderbird's HTML browser engine (CVE-2007-5339) and JavaScript engine (CVE-2007-5340) that can be exploited to cause a memory corruption.
A remote attacker could entice a user to read a specially crafted email that could trigger one of the vulnerabilities, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.
There is no known workaround at this time for all of these issues, but some of them can be avoided by disabling JavaScript.
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-2.0.0.9" |
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-2.0.0.9" |