| Descripción: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'thunderbird'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed content. Malicious
content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-1970,
CVE-2012-1972, CVE-2012-1973, CVE-2012-1974, CVE-2012-1975, CVE-2012-1976,
CVE-2012-3956, CVE-2012-3957, CVE-2012-3958, CVE-2012-3959, CVE-2012-3960,
CVE-2012-3961, CVE-2012-3962, CVE-2012-3963, CVE-2012-3964)
Content containing a malicious Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) image file
could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-3969,
CVE-2012-3970)
Two flaws were found in the way Thunderbird rendered certain images using
WebGL. Malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, under certain
conditions, possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
running Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-3967, CVE-2012-3968)
A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird decoded embedded bitmap images in
Icon Format (ICO) files. Content containing a malicious ICO file could
cause Thunderbird to crash or, under certain conditions, possibly execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird.
(CVE-2012-3966)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, John
Schoenick, Vladimir Vukicevic, Daniel Holbert, Abhishek Arya, Frederic
Hoguin, miaubiz, Arthur Gerkis, Nicolas Gregoire, moz_bug_r_a4, and Colby
Russell as the original reporters of these issues.
Description truncated, please see the referenced URL(s) for more information.
Affected Software/OS:
thunderbird on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6),
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
Solution:
Please Install the Updated Packages.
CVSS Score:
10.0
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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