| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'mozilla-thunderbird'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Security issues were identified and fixed in mozilla thunderbird:
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 (CVE-2012-1971).
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 (CVE-2012-1970).
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of Google Chrome Security
Team discovered a series of use-after-free issues using the Address
Sanitizer tool. Many of these issues are potentially exploitable,
allowing for remote code execution (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).
Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that it is possible to
shadow the location object using Object.defineProperty. This could
be used to confuse the current location to plugins, allowing for
possible cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks (CVE-2012-1956).
Security researcher Frederic Hoguin reported two related issues with
the decoding of bitmap (.BMP) format images embedded in icon (.ICO)
format files. When processing a negative height header value for
the bitmap image, a memory corruption can be induced, allowing an
attacker to write random memory and cause a crash. This crash may be
potentially exploitable (CVE-2012-3966).
Description truncated, please see the referenced URL(s) for more information.
Affected Software/OS:
mozilla-thunderbird on Mandriva Linux 2011.0
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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