| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to icedove announced via advisory DSA 1485-1.
This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT 'Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1485)' (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60575).
Vulnerability Insight:
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove mail
client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird client. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2008-0412
Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul
Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might allow
the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0413
Carsten Book, Wesley Garland, Igor Bukanov, moz_bug_r_a4, shutdown,
Philip Taylor and tgirmann discovered crashes in the Javascript
engine, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0415
moz_bug_r_a4 and Boris Zbarsky discovered discovered several
vulnerabilities in Javascript handling, which could allow
privilege escalation.
CVE-2008-0418
Gerry Eisenhaur and moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that a directory
traversal vulnerability in chrome: URI handling could lead to
information disclosure.
CVE-2008-0419
David Bloom discovered a race condition in the image handling of
designMode elements, which can lead to information disclosure or
potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0591
Michal Zalewski discovered that timers protecting security-sensitive
dialogs (which disable dialog elements until a timeout is reached)
could be bypassed by window focus changes through Javascript.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1-0etch1.
The Mozilla products in the old stable distribution (sarge) are no
longer supported with security updates.
Solution:
We recommend that you upgrade your icedove packages.
CVSS Score:
9.3
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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