Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20111343
Revision Date:2011-09-28Version:636
Title:RHSA-2011:1343: thunderbird security update (Critical)
Description:Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

  • A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled frame objects with certain names. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a plug-in to grant its content access to another site or the local file system, violating the same-origin policy. (CVE-2011-2999)

  • An integer underflow flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled large JavaScript regular expressions. An HTML mail message containing malicious JavaScript could cause Thunderbird to access already freed memory, causing Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-2998)

    All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues. All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to take effect.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2011-2998
    CVE-2011-2999
    RHSA-2011:1343
    RHSA-2011:1343-01
    RHSA-2011:1343-01
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is installed
  • AND thunderbird is earlier than 0:1.5.0.12-44.el4
  • AND thunderbird is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is installed
  • AND thunderbird is earlier than 0:2.0.0.24-26.el5_7
  • AND thunderbird is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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