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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2528-1 (icedove)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to icedove announced via advisory DSA 2528-1.

Insight

Insight

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Icedove, Debian's version of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and news client. CVE-2012-1948 Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine were fixed. CVE-2012-1950 The underlying browser engine allows address bar spoofing through drag-and-drop. CVE-2012-1954 A use-after-free vulnerability in the nsDocument::AdoptNode function allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2012-1967 An error in the implementation of the Javascript sandbox allows execution of Javascript code with improper privileges using javascript: URLs. For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.11-1+squeeze12. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 10.0.6-1.

Solution

Solution

We recommend that you upgrade your icedove packages.

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