-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 _______________________________________________________________________ Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:217-2 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ _______________________________________________________________________ Package : mozilla-thunderbird Date : October 8, 2009 Affected: 2009.1 _______________________________________________________________________ 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 previous mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff packages had the wrong release which prevented it to be upgraded (#53129). The new packages addresses this problem. _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ Updated Packages: Mandriva Linux 2009.1: 8129678451e9e36da6d95a2ce3a694ab 2009.1/i586/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.2mdv2009.1.i586.rpm 229bb034c2f1e741bd8f11419ae1aefe 2009.1/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.2mdv2009.1.src.rpm Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64: f69e7801185436e47737979d0651f445 2009.1/x86_64/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.2mdv2009.1.x86_64.rpm 229bb034c2f1e741bd8f11419ae1aefe 2009.1/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.2mdv2009.1.src.rpm _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKzc5rmqjQ0CJFipgRAvQpAJ9T/LqCuNLAGVYFcxh16Nw9SlgBjACfRyns 3p8/ikiKsb0/DKOQ4TGMJwI= =WJVE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----