Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove mail
client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird client. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2008-0412
Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul
Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might allow
the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-0413
Carsten Book, Wesley Garland, Igor Bukanov, moz_bug_r_a4, shutdown,
Philip Taylor and tgirmann discovered crashes in the JavaScript
engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-0415
moz_bug_r_a4 and Boris Zbarsky discovered several
vulnerabilities in JavaScript handling, which could allow
privilege escalation.
- CVE-2008-0418
Gerry Eisenhaur and moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that a directory
traversal vulnerability in chrome: URI handling could lead to
information disclosure.
- CVE-2008-0419
David Bloom discovered a race condition in the image handling of
designMode elements, which can lead to information disclosure and
potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-0591
Michal Zalewski discovered that timers protecting security-sensitive
dialogs (by disabling dialog elements until a timeout is reached)
could be bypassed by window focus changes through JavaScript.
The Mozilla products from the old stable distribution (sarge) are no
longer supported with security updates.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1-0etch2.
We recommend that you upgrade your icedove packages.