Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Thunderbird, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28179
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28179/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4652/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Thunderbird, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.
1) An error related to URI handlers potentially allows to execute
arbitrary code.
For more information see vulnerability #1 in:
SA26096
2) Various errors in the browser engine and the Javascript engine
can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.
For more information:
SA27313
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.5.0.14.
SOLUTION:
Update to Thunderbird 1.5.0.14.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.14.html
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Mozilla Foundation:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-29.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-40.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA26096:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26096/
SA27313:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27313/
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