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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200701-03">
  <title>Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Thunderbird, some of
    which may allow the remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mozilla-thunderbird</product>
  <announced>January 04, 2007</announced>
  <revised>January 04, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>158571</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.5.0.9</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.5.0.9</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.5.0.9</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.5.0.9</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the
    Mozilla Project.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Georgi Guninski and David Bienvenu discovered buffer overflows in the
    processing of long "Content-Type:" and long non-ASCII MIME headers.
    Additionally, Frederik Reiss discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in
    the conversion of a CSS cursor. Different vulnerabilities involving
    memory corruption in the browser engine were also fixed. Mozilla
    Thunderbird also contains less severe vulnerabilities involving
    JavaScript and Java.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted email that
    will trigger one of these vulnerabilities, possibly leading to the
    execution of arbitrary code. An attacker could also perform cross-site
    scripting attacks, leading to the exposure of sensitive information,
    like user credentials. Note that the execution of JavaScript or Java
    applets is disabled by default and enabling it is strongly discouraged.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There are no known workarounds for all the issues at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Mozilla Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.9&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All Mozilla Thunderbird binary release users should upgrade to the
    latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.5.0.9&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6497">CVE-2006-6497</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6500">CVE-2006-6500</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6501">CVE-2006-6501</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6502">CVE-2006-6502</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6503">CVE-2006-6503</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6505">CVE-2006-6505</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:51:07 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:10:06 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>