Fedora 8 : thunderbird-2.0.0.16-1.fc8 (2008-6706)
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 33841
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
Description
Updated thunderbird packages that fix several security issues are now available for Fedora 8. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML content. An HTML mail containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-2785, CVE-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2811) Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed JavaScript content. An HTML mail containing such malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird.
(CVE-2008-2802, CVE-2008-2803) A flaw was found in the way a malformed .properties file was processed by Thunderbird. A malicious extension could read uninitialized memory, possibly leaking sensitive data to the extension. (CVE-2008-2807) A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird displayed information about self-signed certificates. It was possible for a self-signed certificate to contain multiple alternate name entries, which were not all displayed to the user, allowing them to mistakenly extend trust to an unknown site. (CVE-2008-2809) Thunderbird was updated to upstream version 2.0.0.16 to address these flaws: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html#thunderbird2.0.0.16
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Solution
Update the affected thunderbird package.