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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:1126 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2009-06-25
Updated:
2009-06-25

RHSA-2009:1126 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Moderate: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An updated thunderbird package that fixes several security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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

Description

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-2009-1392, CVE-2009-1303, CVE-2009-1305, CVE-2009-1833,
CVE-2009-1838)

Several flaws were found in the way malformed HTML mail content was
processed. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could execute
arbitrary JavaScript in the context of the mail message, possibly
presenting misleading data to the user, or stealing sensitive information
such as login credentials. (CVE-2009-1306, CVE-2009-1307, CVE-2009-1308,
CVE-2009-1309)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled error responses returned
from proxy servers. If an attacker is able to conduct a man-in-the-middle
attack against a Thunderbird instance that is using a proxy server, they
may be able to steal sensitive information from the site Thunderbird is
displaying. (CVE-2009-1836)

Note: JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird. None of the
above issues are exploitable unless JavaScript is enabled.

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues. All running instances of Thunderbird must be
restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.3 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 456202 - Launch thunderbird with option "-contentLocale" <locale> will get warning message
  • BZ - 496253 - CVE-2009-1303 Firefox 2 and 3 Layout engine crash
  • BZ - 496256 - CVE-2009-1305 Firefox 2 and 3 JavaScript engine crash
  • BZ - 496262 - CVE-2009-1306 Firefox jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI
  • BZ - 496263 - CVE-2009-1307 Firefox Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: protocol
  • BZ - 496266 - CVE-2009-1308 Firefox XSS hazard using third-party stylesheets and XBL bindings
  • BZ - 496267 - CVE-2009-1309 Firefox Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString
  • BZ - 503568 - CVE-2009-1392 Firefox browser engine crashes
  • BZ - 503570 - CVE-2009-1833 Firefox JavaScript engine crashes
  • BZ - 503578 - CVE-2009-1836 Firefox SSL tampering via non-200 responses to proxy CONNECT requests
  • BZ - 503580 - CVE-2009-1838 Firefox arbitrary code execution flaw

CVEs

  • CVE-2009-1303
  • CVE-2009-1306
  • CVE-2009-1307
  • CVE-2009-1305
  • CVE-2009-1309
  • CVE-2009-1308
  • CVE-2009-1833
  • CVE-2009-1838
  • CVE-2009-1392
  • CVE-2009-1836
  • CVE-2009-2210

References

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.src.rpm SHA-256: 5cf142bfd82b2382a5506d71d6151d67ce493e5ebdb6ebeee19b61c100ca2966
x86_64
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1b4a6d011736d97179897ae469cd98dff28298ae0af87260fa76a1587d2758cf
i386
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.i386.rpm SHA-256: e00f9b577c942cb0b08ebfdf769f27a3813e3cd336c1c553b26ab17262bd4163

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.3

SRPM
x86_64
i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.src.rpm SHA-256: 5cf142bfd82b2382a5506d71d6151d67ce493e5ebdb6ebeee19b61c100ca2966
x86_64
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1b4a6d011736d97179897ae469cd98dff28298ae0af87260fa76a1587d2758cf
i386
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.i386.rpm SHA-256: e00f9b577c942cb0b08ebfdf769f27a3813e3cd336c1c553b26ab17262bd4163

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.src.rpm SHA-256: 5cf142bfd82b2382a5506d71d6151d67ce493e5ebdb6ebeee19b61c100ca2966
x86_64
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1b4a6d011736d97179897ae469cd98dff28298ae0af87260fa76a1587d2758cf
i386
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.i386.rpm SHA-256: e00f9b577c942cb0b08ebfdf769f27a3813e3cd336c1c553b26ab17262bd4163

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.src.rpm SHA-256: 5cf142bfd82b2382a5506d71d6151d67ce493e5ebdb6ebeee19b61c100ca2966
x86_64
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1b4a6d011736d97179897ae469cd98dff28298ae0af87260fa76a1587d2758cf
i386
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-2.el5_3.i386.rpm SHA-256: e00f9b577c942cb0b08ebfdf769f27a3813e3cd336c1c553b26ab17262bd4163

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

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