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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2006:0677 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2006-09-15
Updated:
2006-09-15

RHSA-2006:0677 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

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

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

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Two flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed certain regular
expressions. A malicious HTML email could cause a crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-4565,
CVE-2006-4566)

A flaw was found in the Thunderbird auto-update verification system. An
attacker who has the ability to spoof a victim's DNS could get Firefox to
download and install malicious code. In order to exploit this issue an
attacker would also need to get a victim to previously accept an
unverifiable certificate. (CVE-2006-4567)

A flaw was found in the handling of Javascript timed events. A malicious
HTML email could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as
the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-4253)

Daniel Bleichenbacher recently described an implementation error in RSA
signature verification. For RSA keys with exponent 3 it is possible for an
attacker to forge a signature that which would be incorrectly verified by
the NSS library. (CVE-2006-4340)

A flaw was found in Thunderbird that triggered when a HTML message
contained a remote image pointing to a XBL script. An attacker could have
created a carefully crafted message which would execute Javascript if
certain actions were performed on the email by the recipient, even if
Javascript was disabled. (CVE-2006-4570)

A number of flaws were found in Thunderbird. A malicious HTML email could
cause a crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running
Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-4571)

Users of Thunderbird are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains
Thunderbird version 1.5.0.7 that corrects 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.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

  • BZ - 206433 - CVE-2006-4340 Various Thunderbird security issues (CVE-2006-4253 CVE-2006-4565 CVE-2006-4566 CVE-2006-4567 CVE-2006-4570 CVE-2006-4571)

CVEs

  • CVE-2006-4253
  • CVE-2006-4565
  • CVE-2006-4566
  • CVE-2006-4567
  • CVE-2006-4340
  • CVE-2006-4571
  • CVE-2006-4570

References

  • http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4

SRPM
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.src.rpm SHA-256: 6c6e7267e383ea6c8ab34fa4d9a011de3ac978abfccaaf82944864e248765e36
x86_64
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ea18dc43b5ee086ce342715c376c0cf17fa915996e2b95f15dbcd6e5425bd847
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ea18dc43b5ee086ce342715c376c0cf17fa915996e2b95f15dbcd6e5425bd847
ia64
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 2e6bfc0665a972240d200cc03d76db36ef4f56eaae6db7cbf385605220a055c1
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 2e6bfc0665a972240d200cc03d76db36ef4f56eaae6db7cbf385605220a055c1
i386
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.i386.rpm SHA-256: 26bf7a70f85a3521501576d0eae9b1e251d450b5dce441602bb4672098b56d54
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.i386.rpm SHA-256: 26bf7a70f85a3521501576d0eae9b1e251d450b5dce441602bb4672098b56d54

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4

SRPM
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.src.rpm SHA-256: 6c6e7267e383ea6c8ab34fa4d9a011de3ac978abfccaaf82944864e248765e36
x86_64
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ea18dc43b5ee086ce342715c376c0cf17fa915996e2b95f15dbcd6e5425bd847
ia64
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 2e6bfc0665a972240d200cc03d76db36ef4f56eaae6db7cbf385605220a055c1
i386
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.i386.rpm SHA-256: 26bf7a70f85a3521501576d0eae9b1e251d450b5dce441602bb4672098b56d54

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4

SRPM
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.src.rpm SHA-256: 6c6e7267e383ea6c8ab34fa4d9a011de3ac978abfccaaf82944864e248765e36
x86_64
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ea18dc43b5ee086ce342715c376c0cf17fa915996e2b95f15dbcd6e5425bd847
i386
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.i386.rpm SHA-256: 26bf7a70f85a3521501576d0eae9b1e251d450b5dce441602bb4672098b56d54

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4

SRPM
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.src.rpm SHA-256: 6c6e7267e383ea6c8ab34fa4d9a011de3ac978abfccaaf82944864e248765e36
s390x
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.s390x.rpm SHA-256: f2489a95aff4fdcec1aff15d1573c92e30c1705bbced121c5c77491184bc0bd7
s390
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.s390.rpm SHA-256: 4c588978d60582c231ef3106b0f25a096d34785faeb610d766d2da9067f4e6c2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4

SRPM
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.src.rpm SHA-256: 6c6e7267e383ea6c8ab34fa4d9a011de3ac978abfccaaf82944864e248765e36
ppc
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.ppc.rpm SHA-256: c43afc610d7098d3ec87173bf14b6ce9246d5270fdcc7a46a8c8c48014996728

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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