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Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA24252
Release Date: 2007-02-24
Last Update: 2007-03-06
Popularity: 12,452 views

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

Software:Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0008
CVE-2007-0775
CVE-2007-0776
CVE-2007-0777
CVE-2007-1282


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Thunderbird, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An integer overflow within the handling of emails formatted as text/richtext or text/enhanced may be exploited to execute arbitrary code, but requires that a malicious email includes a 400 megabyte long line.

2) See vulnerabilities #2 and #9 for more information:
SA24205

Solution:
Update to version 1.5.0.10.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Georgi Guninski

Changelog:
2007-03-05: Updated "Solution" section and "Solution Status".
2007-03-06: Updated advisory to include MFSA 2007-10.
2007-03-06: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-10.html

Other References:
SA24205:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24205/


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