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Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:217-1 (mozilla-thunderbird)
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 mozilla-thunderbird announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:217-1.
Insight
Insight
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 mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff packages had the wrong release which prevented it to be upgraded (#53129). The new packages addresses this problem. Affected: 2009.1
Solution
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:217-1 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html