[Full-disclosure] [ MDVSA-2009:217-1 ] mozilla-thunderbird

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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                       MDVSA-2009:217-1
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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 Package : mozilla-thunderbird
 Date    : August 23, 2009
 Affected: 2009.1
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 Problem Description:

 A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla
 Thunderbird:
 
 Security issues in thunderbird could lead to a man-in-the-middle
 attack via a spoofed X.509 certificate (CVE-2009-2408).
 
 A vulnerability was found in xmltok_impl.c (expat) that with
 specially crafted XML could be exploited and lead to a denial of
 service attack. Related to CVE-2009-2625.
 
 This update provides the latest version of Thunderbird which are not
 vulnerable to these issues.

 Update:

 The mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff packages had the wrong release
 which prevented it to be upgraded (#53129). The new packages addresses
 this problem.
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 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2408
 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html
 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280615
 https://qa.mandriva.com/53129
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 Updated Packages:

 Mandriva Linux 2009.1:
 e1c540f94c8b66fa4495de6015ed85db  
2009.1/i586/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.i586.rpm 
 ab2fa7586f21de2f23216def8c542db6  
2009.1/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64:
 b9ff59f0c11d63a1234365ea55ed5f46  
2009.1/x86_64/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.x86_64.rpm 
 ab2fa7586f21de2f23216def8c542db6  
2009.1/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm
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 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
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 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  <security*mandriva.com>
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