Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Thunderbird
processed messages with external-body Multipurpose Internet Message
Extensions (MIME) types. A HTML mail message containing malicious content
could cause Thunderbird to execute arbitrary code as the user running
Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-0304)
Several flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed certain malformed
HTML mail content. A HTML mail message containing malicious content could
cause Thunderbird to crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code as the
user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-0412, CVE-2008-0413, CVE-2008-0415,
CVE-2008-0419)
Several flaws were found in the way Thunderbird displayed malformed HTML
mail content. A HTML mail message containing specially-crafted content
could trick a user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-0420,
CVE-2008-0591, CVE-2008-0593)
A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handles certain chrome URLs. If a
user has certain extensions installed, it could allow a malicious HTML mail
message to steal sensitive session data. Note: this flaw does not affect a
default installation of Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-0418)
Note: JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird; the above
issues are not exploitable unless JavaScript is enabled.
A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird saves certain text files. If a
remote site offers a file of type “plain/text”, rather than “text/plain”,
Thunderbird will not show future “text/plain” content to the user, forcing
them to save those files locally to view the content. (CVE-2008-0592)
Users of thunderbird are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 4 | ppc | thunderbird | < 1.5.0.12-8.el4 | thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el4.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | x86_64 | thunderbird | < 1.5.0.12-8.el5 | thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el5.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | i386 | thunderbird | < 1.5.0.12-8.el4 | thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el4.i386.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | x86_64 | thunderbird | < 1.5.0.12-8.el4 | thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el4.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | s390 | thunderbird | < 1.5.0.12-8.el4 | thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el4.s390.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | ia64 | thunderbird | < 1.5.0.12-8.el4 | thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el4.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | src | thunderbird | < 1.5.0.12-8.el5 | thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el5.src.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | i386 | thunderbird | < 1.5.0.12-8.el5 | thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el5.i386.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | src | thunderbird | < 1.5.0.12-8.el4 | thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el4.src.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | s390x | thunderbird | < 1.5.0.12-8.el4 | thunderbird-1.5.0.12-8.el4.s390x.rpm |