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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Critical: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2006:0735-01
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0735.html
Issue date: 2006-11-08
Updated on: 2006-11-08
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
CVE Names: CVE-2006-5462 CVE-2006-5463 CVE-2006-5464
CVE-2006-5747 CVE-2006-5748
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1. Summary:
Updated thunderbird packages that fix several security bugs are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64
3. Problem description:
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
Several flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processes certain malformed
Javascript code. A malicious HTML mail message could cause the execution of
Javascript code in such a way that could cause Thunderbird to crash or
execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-5463,
CVE-2006-5747, CVE-2006-5748)
Several flaws were found in the way Thunderbird renders HTML mail messages.
A malicious HTML mail message could cause the mail client to crash or
possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird.
(CVE-2006-5464)
A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird verifies RSA signatures. For RSA
keys with exponent 3 it is possible for an attacker to forge a signature
that would be incorrectly verified by the NSS library. Thunderbird as
shipped trusts several root Certificate Authorities that use exponent 3. An
attacker could have created a carefully crafted SSL certificate which would
be incorrectly trusted when their site was visited by a victim. This flaw
was previously thought to be fixed in Thunderbird 1.5.0.7, however Ulrich
Kuehn discovered the fix was incomplete (CVE-2006-5462)
Users of Thunderbird are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains
Thunderbird version 1.5.0.8 that corrects these issues.
4. Solution:
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
5. Bug IDs fixed (
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
214450 - CVE-2006-5462 Multiple thunderbird vulnerabilities (CVE-2006-5463, CVE-2006-5464, CVE-2006-5747, CVE-2006-5748)
6. RPMs required:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4AS/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.src.rpm
3b42db7cd5de96204220fc212064b368 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.src.rpm
i386:
6846d16a9833cd58d38c6d0267837152 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.i386.rpm
0298dc3998a510a9969ebd2be25fd7fd thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.i386.rpm
ia64:
9b557c66d3dcbbb4c71984bec11eb1fa thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.ia64.rpm
be9567100aba0f74790bfed2302387fe thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.ia64.rpm
ppc:
5254c63c36ecdc78fd449ec676dbbb51 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.ppc.rpm
c1c55d07f66b21162fb2b4b453a2140b thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.ppc.rpm
s390:
c99069f348e8000d097c063481c65161 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.s390.rpm
8a08b48a7f065ff9b896f3358d27143a thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.s390.rpm
s390x:
df7a17a986408c46edbc41b635979e70 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.s390x.rpm
7e3e505e5107d1f570e5816997ba8d9f thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
66192461dde3955b47a05c5a590f2ab2 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm
db5311f525dac8fe5d3c002aca7cef54 thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:
SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4Desktop/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.src.rpm
3b42db7cd5de96204220fc212064b368 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.src.rpm
i386:
6846d16a9833cd58d38c6d0267837152 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.i386.rpm
0298dc3998a510a9969ebd2be25fd7fd thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.i386.rpm
x86_64:
66192461dde3955b47a05c5a590f2ab2 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm
db5311f525dac8fe5d3c002aca7cef54 thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:
SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4ES/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.src.rpm
3b42db7cd5de96204220fc212064b368 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.src.rpm
i386:
6846d16a9833cd58d38c6d0267837152 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.i386.rpm
0298dc3998a510a9969ebd2be25fd7fd thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.i386.rpm
ia64:
9b557c66d3dcbbb4c71984bec11eb1fa thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.ia64.rpm
be9567100aba0f74790bfed2302387fe thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.ia64.rpm
x86_64:
66192461dde3955b47a05c5a590f2ab2 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm
db5311f525dac8fe5d3c002aca7cef54 thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4:
SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4WS/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.src.rpm
3b42db7cd5de96204220fc212064b368 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.src.rpm
i386:
6846d16a9833cd58d38c6d0267837152 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.i386.rpm
0298dc3998a510a9969ebd2be25fd7fd thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.i386.rpm
ia64:
9b557c66d3dcbbb4c71984bec11eb1fa thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.ia64.rpm
be9567100aba0f74790bfed2302387fe thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.ia64.rpm
x86_64:
66192461dde3955b47a05c5a590f2ab2 thunderbird-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm
db5311f525dac8fe5d3c002aca7cef54 thunderbird-debuginfo-1.5.0.8-0.1.el4.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package
7. References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5462
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5463
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5464
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5747
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5748
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2006 Red Hat, Inc.
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