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Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA18704
Release Date: 2006-02-02
Last Update: 2006-05-04
Popularity: 37,520 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
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-2006-0292
CVS-2006-0293
CVE-2006-0294
CVE-2006-0295
CVE-2006-0296
CVE-2006-0297
CVE-2006-0298
CVE-2006-0299
CVE-2006-0748
CVE-2006-0884
CVE-2006-1045
CVE-2006-1529
CVE-2006-1530
CVE-2006-1531
CVE-2006-1723
CVE-2006-1724
CVE-2006-1741


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

For more information:
SA18700

Also, see #1, #15, #16, #18, #19, #20, and #22 in:
SA19631

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

The following weakness and vulnerability have also been reported:

1) An error caused due to certain references to external resources being followed can be exploited to validate the existence of an mail address when a malicious mail is opened using e.g. CSS or an iframe included in-line.

This is related to:
SA13086

2) The problem is that JavaScript code embedded in mails are executed when forwarding a mail in-line. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with full privileges when a user forwards a malicious mail via the "Forward As" functionality.

This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA15907

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.8 or 1.5.0.2.
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.0.8/
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.2/

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) CrashFr.
2) Georgi Guninski

Changelog:
2006-02-06: Removed CVE reference.
2006-04-14: Vendor discloses information about additional vulnerabilities. Updated advisory.
2006-04-17: Added additional information.
2006-04-20: Updated "Solution" section.
2006-04-24: Vendor releases information about additional vulnerabilities. Updated advisory.
2006-05-04: Updated affected software.

Original Advisory:
1) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-26.html
2) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-21.html

Other References:
SA13086:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13086/

SA15907:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15907/

SA18700:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18700/

SA19631:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19631/


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