Gentoo update for mozilla-thunderbird
Secunia Advisory: SA22274
Release Date: 2006-10-05
Popularity: 6,036 views

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

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-4253
CVE-2006-4340
CVE-2006-4565
CVE-2006-4566
CVE-2006-4567
CVE-2006-4570
CVE-2006-4571


Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for mozilla-thunderbird. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, and potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA21939

Solution:
All Mozilla Thunderbird users should update to:
"mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.7" or later.

All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should update to:
"mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.5.0.7" or later.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200610-01.xml

Other References:
SA21939:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21939/


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