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