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Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA20382
Release Date: 2006-06-02
Last Update: 2006-06-20
Popularity: 12,937 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Mozilla Thunderbird 0.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2775
CVE-2006-2776
CVE-2006-2778
CVE-2006-2779
CVE-2006-2780
CVE-2006-2781
CVE-2006-2783
CVE-2006-2786
CVE-2006-2787


Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Thunderbird, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting and HTTP response smuggling attacks, and potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information, see vulnerabilities #1, #2, #3, #5, #6, #7, and #9 in:
SA20376

Successful exploitation of some of the vulnerabilities requires that JavaScript is enabled (not enabled by default).

The following vulnerability has also been reported:

The vulnerability is caused due to a double-free error within the processing of large VCards with invalid base64 characters. This may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Solution:
Update to version 1.5.0.4.
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Masatoshi Kimura

Changelog:
2006-06-07: Added CVE references.
2006-06-20: Added CVE references.

Original Advisory:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-40.html

Other References:
SA20376:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20376/


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