This update brings Mozilla Thunderbird to version 2.0.0.17.

It contains the following security fixes: MFSA 2008-46 / CVE-2008-4070: Heap overflow when canceling a newsgroup message

MFSA 2008-44 / CVE-2008-4067 / CVE-2008-4068: resource: traversal vulnerabilities

MFSA 2008-43: BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution CVE-2008-4065: Stripped BOM characters bug CVE-2008-4066: HTML escaped low surrogates bug

MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17): CVE-2008-4061: Jesse Ruderman reported a crash in the layout engine. CVE-2008-4062: Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski, and Antoine Labour reported crashes in the JavaScript engine. CVE-2008-4063: Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, and Martijn Wargers reported crashes in the layout engine which only affected Firefox 3.
CVE-2008-4064: David Maciejak and Drew Yao reported crashes in graphics rendering which only affected Firefox 3.

MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution CVE-2008-4058: XPCnativeWrapper pollution bugs CVE-2008-4059:
XPCnativeWrapper pollution (Firefox 2) CVE-2008-4060: Documents without script handling objects

MFSA 2008-38 / CVE-2008-3835: nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation

MFSA 2008-37 / CVE-2008-0016: UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow

For more details:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.ht ml

This update update upgrades thunderbird packages to upstream version 2.0.0.18, which fixes multiple security issues detailed in upstream security advisories: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html#thunderbird2.0.0.17 http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html#thunderbird2.0.0.18

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The installed version of SeaMonkey is affected by various security issues :

  - Using a specially crafted UTF-8 URL in a hyperlink, an     attacker might be able to exploit a stack buffer     overflow in the Mozilla URL parsing routes to execute     arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-37)

  - It is possible to bypass the same-origin check in     'nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect()'. (MFSA 2008-38)

  - An attacker can cause the content window to move while     the mouse is being clicked, causing an item to be     dragged rather than clicked-on. (MFSA 2008-40)

  - Privilege escalation is possible via 'XPCnativeWrapper'     pollution. (MFSA 2008-41)

  - There are several stability bugs in the browser engine     that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory     corruption. (MFSA 2008-42)

  - Certain BOM characters and low surrogate characters,     if HTML-escaped, are stripped from JavaScript code     before it is executed, which could allow for cross-     site scripting attacks. (MFSA 2008-43)

  - The 'resource:' protocol allows directory traversal     on Linux when using URL-encoded slashes, and it can     by used to bypass restrictions on local HTML files.
    (MFSA 2008-44)

  - A bug in the XBM decoder allows random small chunks of     uninitialized memory to be read. (MFSA 2008-45)

  - There is a heap-based buffer overflow that can be     triggered when canceling a newsgroup message.
    (MFSA 2008-46)

Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
SeaMonkey is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2008-0016, CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062) Several flaws were found in the way malformed web content was displayed. A web page containing specially crafted content could potentially trick a SeaMonkey user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-3835, CVE-2008-4067, CVE-2008-4068, CVE-2008-4069) A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handles mouse click events. A web page containing specially crafted JavaScript code could move the content window while a mouse-button was pressed, causing any item under the pointer to be dragged. This could, potentially, cause the user to perform an unsafe drag-and-drop action.
(CVE-2008-3837) A flaw was found in SeaMonkey that caused certain characters to be stripped from JavaScript code. This flaw could allow malicious JavaScript to bypass or evade script filters.
(CVE-2008-4065, CVE-2008-4066) All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain patches to resolve these issues.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update brings MozillaFirefox to version 2.0.0.17 to fix bugs and security issues :

MFSA 2008-45 / CVE-2008-4069: XBM image uninitialized memory reading

MFSA 2008-44 / CVE-2008-4067 / CVE-2008-4068: resource: traversal vulnerabilities

MFSA 2008-43: BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution CVE-2008-4065: Stripped BOM characters bug CVE-2008-4066: HTML escaped low surrogates bug

MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17): CVE-2008-4061: Jesse Ruderman reported a crash in the layout engine. CVE-2008-4062: Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski, and Antoine Labour reported crashes in the JavaScript engine. CVE-2008-4063: Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, and Martijn Wargers reported crashes in the layout engine which only affected Firefox 3.
CVE-2008-4064: David Maciejak and Drew Yao reported crashes in graphics rendering which only affected Firefox 3.

MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution CVE-2008-4058: XPCnativeWrapper pollution bugs CVE-2008-4059:
XPCnativeWrapper pollution (Firefox 2) CVE-2008-4060: Documents without script handling objects

MFSA 2008-40 / CVE-2008-3837: Forced mouse drag

MFSA 2008-39 / CVE-2008-3836: Privilege escalation using feed preview page and XSS flaw

MFSA 2008-38 / CVE-2008-3835: nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation

MFSA 2008-37 / CVE-2008-0016: UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow

For more details:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox20.html

Updated thunderbird packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML mail content. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-0016, CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062)

Several flaws were found in the way malformed HTML mail content was displayed. An HTML mail message containing specially crafted content could potentially trick a Thunderbird user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-3835, CVE-2008-4067, CVE-2008-4068)

A flaw was found in Thunderbird that caused certain characters to be stripped from JavaScript code. This flaw could allow malicious JavaScript to bypass or evade script filters. (CVE-2008-4065, CVE-2008-4066)

Note: JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird; the above issue is not exploitable unless JavaScript is enabled.

A heap based buffer overflow flaw was found in the handling of cancelled newsgroup messages. If the user cancels a specially crafted newsgroup message it could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird.
(CVE-2008-4070)

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

This update backports lots of security fixes to mozilla-xulrunner package of SLES 10.

It contains among others the following security fixes :

  - XBM image uninitialized memory reading. (MFSA 2008-45 /     CVE-2008-4069)

  - resource: traversal vulnerabilities. (MFSA 2008-44 /     CVE-2008-4067 / CVE-2008-4068)

  - BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution     CVE-2008-4065: Stripped BOM characters bug     CVE-2008-4066: HTML escaped low surrogates bug. (MFSA     2008-43)

  - Crashes with evidence of memory corruption     (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17): CVE-2008-4061: Jesse Ruderman     reported a crash in the layout engine. CVE-2008-4062:
    Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski, and     Antoine Labour reported crashes in the JavaScript     engine. CVE-2008-4063: Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, and     Martijn Wargers reported crashes in the layout engine     which only affected Firefox 3. CVE-2008-4064: David     Maciejak and Drew Yao reported crashes in graphics     rendering which only affected Firefox 3. (MFSA 2008-42)

  - Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution     CVE-2008-4058: XPCnativeWrapper pollution bugs     CVE-2008-4059: XPCnativeWrapper pollution (Firefox 2)     CVE-2008-4060: Documents without script handling     objects. (MFSA 2008-41)

  - Forced mouse drag. (MFSA 2008-40 / CVE-2008-3837)

  - Privilege escalation using feed preview page and XSS     flaw. (MFSA 2008-39 / CVE-2008-3836)

  - nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin     violation. (MFSA 2008-38 / CVE-2008-3835)

  - UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow. (MFSA 2008-37 /     CVE-2008-0016)

For more details:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefo x20.html

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2008-0016     Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a     buffer overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may     lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-37)

  - CVE-2008-1380     It was discovered that crashes in the JavaScript engine     could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary     code. (MFSA 2008-20)

  - CVE-2008-3835     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that the same-origin check in     nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could be bypassed.
    (MFSA 2008-38)

  - CVE-2008-4058     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered a vulnerability which can     result in Chrome privilege escalation through     XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)

  - CVE-2008-4059     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered a vulnerability which can     result in Chrome privilege escalation through     XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)

  - CVE-2008-4060     Olli Pettay and 'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered a Chrome     privilege escalation vulnerability in XSLT handling.
    (MFSA 2008-41)

  - CVE-2008-4061     Jesse Ruderman discovered a crash in the layout engine,     which might allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA     2008-42)

  - CVE-2008-4062     Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski and Antoine     Labour discovered crashes in the JavaScript engine,     which might allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA     2008-42)

  - CVE-2008-4065     Dave Reed discovered that some Unicode byte order marks     are stripped from JavaScript code before execution,     which can result in code being executed, which were     otherwise part of a quoted string. (MFSA 2008-43)

  - CVE-2008-4067     It was discovered that a directory traversal allows     attackers to read arbitrary files via a certain     character. (MFSA 2008-44)

  - CVE-2008-4068     It was discovered that a directory traversal allows     attackers to bypass security restrictions and obtain     sensitive information. (MFSA 2008-44)

  - CVE-2008-4070     It was discovered that a buffer overflow could be     triggered via a long header in a news article, which     could lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-46)

  - CVE-2008-4582     Liu Die Yu and Boris Zbarsky discovered an information     leak through local shortcut files. (MFSA 2008-47, MFSA     2008-59)

  - CVE-2008-5012     Georgi Guninski, Michal Zalewski and Chris Evan     discovered that the canvas element could be used to     bypass same-origin restrictions. (MFSA 2008-48)

  - CVE-2008-5014     Jesse Ruderman discovered that a programming error in     the window.__proto__.__proto__ object could lead to     arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-50)

  - CVE-2008-5017     It was discovered that crashes in the layout engine     could lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-52)

  - CVE-2008-5018     It was discovered that crashes in the JavaScript engine     could lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-52)

  - CVE-2008-5021     It was discovered that a crash in the nsFrameManager     might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA     2008-55)

  - CVE-2008-5022     'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that the same-origin check in     nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() could be     bypassed. (MFSA 2008-56)

  - CVE-2008-5024     Chris Evans discovered that quote characters were     improperly escaped in the default namespace of E4X     documents. (MFSA 2008-58)

  - CVE-2008-5500     Jesse Ruderman discovered that the layout engine is     vulnerable to DoS attacks that might trigger memory     corruption and an integer overflow. (MFSA 2008-60)

  - CVE-2008-5503     Boris Zbarsky discovered that an information disclosure     attack could be performed via XBL bindings. (MFSA     2008-61)

  - CVE-2008-5506     Marius Schilder discovered that it is possible to obtain     sensible data via a XMLHttpRequest. (MFSA 2008-64)

  - CVE-2008-5507     Chris Evans discovered that it is possible to obtain     sensible data via a JavaScript URL. (MFSA 2008-65)

  - CVE-2008-5508     Chip Salzenberg discovered possible phishing attacks via     URLs with leading whitespaces or control characters.
    (MFSA 2008-66)

  - CVE-2008-5511     It was discovered that it is possible to perform     cross-site scripting attacks via an XBL binding to an     'unloaded document.' (MFSA 2008-68)

  - CVE-2008-5512     It was discovered that it is possible to run arbitrary     JavaScript with chrome privileges via unknown vectors.
    (MFSA 2008-68)

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Firefox program, version 2.0.0.17 (CVE-2008-0016, CVE-2008-3835, CVE-2008-3836, CVE-2008-3837, CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062, CVE-2008-4065, CVE-2008-4066, CVE-2008-4067, CVE-2008-4068, CVE-2008-4069).

This update provides the latest Firefox to correct these issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
39893	openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (MozillaThunderbird-236)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/21/2009	1/14/2021	critical
34836	Fedora 8 : thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc8 (2008-9807)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	11/21/2008	1/11/2021	critical
34269	SeaMonkey < 1.1.12 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	9/24/2008	5/27/2026	high
34307	Fedora 8 : seamonkey-1.1.12-1.fc8 (2008-8401)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	9/29/2008	1/11/2021	critical
34318	openSUSE 10 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-5640)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/1/2008	1/14/2021	critical
34339	CentOS 4 / 5 : thunderbird (CESA-2008:0908)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	10/6/2008	1/4/2021	critical
34366	SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla (ZYPP Patch Number 5654)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/8/2008	1/14/2021	critical
35313	Debian DSA-1696-1 : icedove - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	1/8/2009	1/4/2021	critical
36823	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-firefox (MDVSA-2008:205)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	4/23/2009	1/6/2021	critical

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