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Gentoo update for mozilla-thunderbird
Secunia Advisory: SA23598
Release Date: 2007-01-05
Popularity: 9,803 views

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

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-6497
CVE-2006-6500
CVE-2006-6501
CVE-2006-6502
CVE-2006-6503
CVE-2006-6505


Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for mozilla-thunderbird. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA23420

Solution:
All Mozilla Thunderbird users should update to:
"mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.9" or later

All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should update to:
"mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.5.0.9" or later

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-03.xml

Other References:
SA23420:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23420/


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