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Mozilla Thunderbird Two Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA26096  
Release Date: 2007-07-18
Last Update: 2007-12-20

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

Software:Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-3670 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-3734 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-3735 (Secunia mirror)

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

1) An error when registering a URI handler potentially allows to execute arbitrary code.

This is similar to:
SA25984

2) Various errors exists in the browser and Javascript engine.

For more information see vulnerabilities #1 and #2 in:
SA26095

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Solution:
Update to version 2.0.0.5.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Update to version 1.5.0.13.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Greg MacManus, iDefense Labs
2) Reported by the vendor, originally discovered in Firefox.

Changelog:
2007-07-20: Added link to iDefense and updated credits section.
2007-07-26: Updated "Solution" section and added additional link.
2007-12-20: Updated Advisory. Added Thunderbird 1.5.x to list of affected products.

Original Advisory:
Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-18.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-23.html

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=565

Other References:
SA25984:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25984/

SA26095:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26095/

http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse



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