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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-217

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-217
Posted Oct 8, 2009
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-217 - A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird.

tags | advisory, vulnerability
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2009-2408
SHA-256 | 23af80c1b7971740b54732c05fcee9a0e68f26cda0ac036694fe85e3e7b41042

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-217

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:217-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : mozilla-thunderbird
Date : August 23, 2009
Affected: 2009.1
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Problem Description:

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla
Thunderbird:

Security issues in thunderbird could lead to a man-in-the-middle
attack via a spoofed X.509 certificate (CVE-2009-2408).

A vulnerability was found in xmltok_impl.c (expat) that with
specially crafted XML could be exploited and lead to a denial of
service attack. Related to CVE-2009-2625.

This update provides the latest version of Thunderbird which are not
vulnerable to these issues.

Update:

The mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff packages had the wrong release
which prevented it to be upgraded (#53129). The new packages addresses
this problem.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2408
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280615
https://qa.mandriva.com/53129
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 2009.1:
e1c540f94c8b66fa4495de6015ed85db 2009.1/i586/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.i586.rpm
ab2fa7586f21de2f23216def8c542db6 2009.1/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64:
b9ff59f0c11d63a1234365ea55ed5f46 2009.1/x86_64/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.x86_64.rpm
ab2fa7586f21de2f23216def8c542db6 2009.1/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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