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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2437-1 (icedove)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to icedove announced via advisory DSA 2437-1.
Insight
Insight
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Icedove, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail/news client. CVE-2012-0455 Soroush Dalili discovered that a cross-site scripting countermeasure related to Javascript URLs could be bypassed. CVE-2012-0456 Atte Kettunen discovered an out of bounds read in the SVG Filters, resulting in memory disclosure. CVE-2012-0458 Mariusz Mlynski discovered that privileges could be escalated through a Javascript URL as the home page. CVE-2012-0461 Bob Clary discovered memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version icedove 3.0.11-1+squeeze8. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your icedove packages.