[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2011:1076-2: important: MozillaThunderbird: Update to Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.14

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openSUSE Security Update: MozillaThunderbird: Update to Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.14

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:1076-2

Rating: important

References: #720264

Affected Products:

openSUSE 11.4

openSUSE 11.3

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An update that contains security fixes can now be

installed. It includes two new package versions.

 

Description:

 

Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to version 3.1.14, fixing

various bugs and security issues.

 

MFSA 2011-36: Mozilla developers identified and fixed

several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in

Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these

bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain

circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at

least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary

code.

 

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in

the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is

disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or

browser-like contexts in those products.

 

Benjamin Smedberg, Bob Clary, and Jesse Ruderman reported

memory safety problems that affected Firefox 3.6 and

Firefox 6. (CVE-2011-2995)

 

Bob Clary, Andrew McCreight, Andreas Gal, Gary Kwong, Igor

Bukanov, Jason Orendorff, Jesse Ruderman, and Marcia Knous

reported memory safety problems that affected Firefox 6,

fixed in Firefox 7. (CVE-2011-2997)

 

 

 

MFSA 2011-38: Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky reported that

a frame named "location" could shadow the window.location

object unless a script in a page grabbed a reference to the

true object before the frame was created. Because some

plugins use the value of window.location to determine the

page origin this could fool the plugin into granting the

plugin content access to another site or the local file

system in violation of the Same Origin Policy. This flaw

allows circumvention of the fix added for MFSA 2010-10.

(CVE-2011-2999)

 

MFSA 2011-39: Ian Graham of Citrix Online reported that

when multiple Location headers were present in a redirect

response Mozilla behavior differed from other browsers:

Mozilla would use the second Location header while Chrome

and Internet Explorer would use the first. Two copies of

this header with different values could be a symptom of a

CRLF injection attack against a vulnerable server. Most

commonly it is the Location header itself that is

vulnerable to the response splitting and therefore the copy

preferred by Mozilla is more likely to be the malicious

one. It is possible, however, that the first copy was the

injected one depending on the nature of the server

vulnerability.

 

The Mozilla browser engine has been changed to treat two

copies of this header with different values as an error

condition. The same has been done with the headers

Content-Length and Content-Disposition. (CVE-2011-3000)

 

MFSA 2011-40: Mariusz Mlynski reported that if you could

convince a user to hold down the Enter key--as part of a

game or test, perhaps--a malicious page could pop up a

download dialog where the held key would then activate the

default Open action. For some file types this would be

merely annoying (the equivalent of a pop-up) but other file

types have powerful scripting capabilities. And this would

provide an avenue for an attacker to exploit a

vulnerability in applications not normally exposed to

potentially hostile internet content.

 

Mariusz also reported a similar flaw with manual plugin

installation using the PLUGINSPAGE attribute. It was

possible to create an internal error that suppressed a

confirmation dialog, such that holding enter would lead to

the installation of an arbitrary add-on. (This variant did

not affect Firefox 3.6)

 

Holding enter allows arbitrary code execution due to

Download Manager (CVE-2011-2372)

 

Holding enter allows arbitrary extension installation

(CVE-2011-3001)

 

MFSA 2011-42: Security researcher Aki Helin reported a

potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular

expression library used by JavaScript. (CVE-2011-3232)

 

MFSA 2011-44: sczimmer reported that Firefox crashed when

loading a particular .ogg file. This was due to a

use-after-free condition and could potentially be exploited

to install malware. (CVE-2011-3005)

 

This vulnerability does not affect Firefox 3.6 or earlier.

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- openSUSE 11.4:

 

zypper in -t patch MozillaThunderbird-5204

 

- openSUSE 11.3:

 

zypper in -t patch MozillaThunderbird-5204

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 3.1.15]:

 

MozillaThunderbird-3.1.15-0.17.1

MozillaThunderbird-buildsymbols-3.1.15-0.17.1

MozillaThunderbird-devel-3.1.15-0.17.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-3.1.15-0.17.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-3.1.15-0.17.1

enigmail-1.1.2+3.1.15-0.17.1

 

- openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 3.1.15]:

 

MozillaThunderbird-3.1.15-0.21.1

MozillaThunderbird-devel-3.1.15-0.21.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-3.1.15-0.21.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-3.1.15-0.21.1

enigmail-1.1.2+3.1.15-0.21.1

 

 

References:

 

https://bugzilla.novell.com/720264

 

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