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Family: Fedora Local Security Checks --> Category: infos
Fedora Core 5 2006-977: thunderbird Vulnerability Scan
Vulnerability Scan Summary Check for the version of the thunderbird package
Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Test
The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2006-977 (thunderbird).
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
Update Information:
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. A possible hacker 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 a possible hacker 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)
A flaw was found in Thunderbird that triggered when a HTML
message contained a remote image pointing to a XBL script.
A possible hacker 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 : Get the newest Fedora Updates
Threat Level: High
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