RedHat: Important: thunderbird security update
Summary
Summary
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. A bug was found in the way Thunderbird processes certain international domain names. An attacker could create a specially crafted HTML mail, which when viewed by the victim would cause Thunderbird to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. Thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 must have international domain names enabled by the user in order to be vulnerable to this issue. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-2871 to this issue. A bug was found in the way Thunderbird processes certain Unicode sequences. It may be possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird if the user views a specially crafted HTML mail containing Unicode sequences. (CAN-2005-2702) A bug was found in the way Thunderbird makes XMLHttp requests. It is possible that a malicious HTML mail could leverage this flaw to exploit other proxy or server flaws from the victim's machine. It is also possible that this flaw could be leveraged to send XMLHttp requests to hosts other than the originator; the default behavior of Thunderbird is to disallow such actions. (CAN-2005-2703) A bug was found in the way Thunderbird implemented its XBL interface. It may be possible for a malicious HTML mail to create an XBL binding in such a way that would allow arbitrary JavaScript execution with chrome permissions. Please note that in Thunderbird 1.0.6 this issue is not directly exploitable and will need to leverage other unknown exploits. (CAN-2005-2704) An integer overflow bug was found in Thunderbird's JavaScript engine. Under favorable conditions, it may be possible for a malicious mail message to execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. Please note that JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird. (CAN-2005-2705) A bug was found in the way Thunderbird displays about: pages. It is possible for a malicious HTML mail to open an about: page, such as about:mozilla, in such a way that it becomes possible to execute JavaScript with chrome privileges. (CAN-2005-2706) A bug was found in the way Thunderbird opens new windows. It is possible for a malicious HTML mail to construct a new window without any user interface components, such as the address bar and the status bar. This window could then be used to mislead the user for malicious purposes. (CAN-2005-2707) A bug was found in the way Thunderbird processes URLs passed to it on the command line. If a user passes a malformed URL to Thunderbird, such as clicking on a link in an instant messaging program, it is possible to execute arbitrary commands as the user running Thunderbird. (CAN-2005-2968) Users of Thunderbird are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains Thunderbird version 1.0.7 and is not vulnerable to these issues.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
167944 - CAN-2005-2871 Firefox buffer overflow affects thunderbird
168531 - CAN-2005-2701 Multiple Firefox issues (CAN-2005-2702, CAN-2005-2703, CAN-2005-2704, CAN-2005-2705, CAN-2005-2706, CAN-2005-2707)
6. RPMs required:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
SRPMS:
47e8f864e7070ec1fb6f257803cd523e thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.src.rpm
i386:
ad88c9b3e77374cb852a05800dfa26d8 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.i386.rpm
ia64:
42638d07a091f9397100fcff8f4088d0 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.ia64.rpm
ppc:
fe510ef278156b9e615c059c2a7697ae thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.ppc.rpm
s390:
1df2169e7ad318106c9573dbf84f0ca2 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.s390.rpm
s390x:
59d6cab71a71d3beb28f6cd136ff64c2 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
f9e2b6890106798b44b31957d3025019 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:
SRPMS:
47e8f864e7070ec1fb6f257803cd523e thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.src.rpm
i386:
ad88c9b3e77374cb852a05800dfa26d8 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.i386.rpm
x86_64:
f9e2b6890106798b44b31957d3025019 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:
SRPMS:
47e8f864e7070ec1fb6f257803cd523e thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.src.rpm
i386:
ad88c9b3e77374cb852a05800dfa26d8 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.i386.rpm
ia64:
42638d07a091f9397100fcff8f4088d0 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.ia64.rpm
x86_64:
f9e2b6890106798b44b31957d3025019 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4:
SRPMS:
47e8f864e7070ec1fb6f257803cd523e thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.src.rpm
i386:
ad88c9b3e77374cb852a05800dfa26d8 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.i386.rpm
ia64:
42638d07a091f9397100fcff8f4088d0 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.ia64.rpm
x86_64:
f9e2b6890106798b44b31957d3025019 thunderbird-1.0.7-1.4.1.x86_64.rpm
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References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2871 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2702 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2703 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2704 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2705 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2706 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2707 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2968
Package List
Topic
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64
Bugs Fixed