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Gentoo update for mozilla-thunderbird
Secunia Advisory: SA20709
Release Date: 2006-06-20
Popularity: 5,874 views

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

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.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:
Gentoo has issued an update for mozilla-thunderbird. This fixes some vulnerabilities, 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:
SA20382

Solution:
Mozilla Thunderbird users:
Update to "mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.4" or later.

Mozilla Thunderbird binary users:
Update to "mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.5.0.4" or later.

The vendor recommends users of Mozilla Thunderbird on the Alpha architecture to unmerge it until a stable fixed version is available.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-21.xml

Other References:
SA20382:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20382/


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