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USN157-1 : mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : These remote packages are missing security patches : - mozilla-enigmail - mozilla-thunderbird - mozilla-thunderbird-dev - mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail - mozilla-thunderbird-inspector - mozilla-thunderbird-offline - mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind Description : Vladimir V. Perepelitsa discovered a bug in Thunderbird's handling of anonymous functions during regular expression string replacement. A malicious HTML email could exploit this to capture a random block of client memory. (CVE-2005-0989) Georgi Guninski discovered that the types of certain XPInstall related JavaScript objects were not sufficiently validated when they were called. This could be exploited by malicious HTML email content to crash Thunderbird or even execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user. (CVE-2005-1159) Thunderbird did not properly verify the values of XML DOM nodes. By tricking the user to perform a common action like clicking on a link or opening the context menu, a malicious HTML email could exploit this to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with the full rights of the user. (CVE-2005-1160) A variant of the attack described in CVE-2005-1160 (see USN-124-1) was discovered. Additional checks were added to make sure Javascript eval and script objects are run with the p [...] Solution : Upgrade to : - mozilla-enigmail-0.92-1ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 5.04) - mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-0ubuntu05.04 (Ubuntu 5.04) - mozilla-thunderbird-dev-1.0.6-0ubuntu05.04 (Ubuntu 5.04) - mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail-0.92-1ubuntu05.04.1 (Ubuntu 5.04) - mozilla-thunderbird-inspector-1.0.6-0ubuntu05.04 (Ubuntu 5.04) - mozilla-thunderbird-offline-1.0.6-0ubuntu05.04 (Ubuntu 5.04) - mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind-1.0.6-0ubuntu05.04 (Ubuntu 5.04) Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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