Synopsis:	Moderate: thunderbird security update
Issue date:	2010-09-07
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-2760 CVE-2010-2765 CVE-2010-2767
                   CVE-2010-2768 CVE-2010-3167 CVE-2010-3168
                   CVE-2010-3169

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML mail 
content. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could cause 
Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the 
privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-3169)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in Thunderbird. An HTML mail message
containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user 
running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-2765)

A use-after-free flaw and several dangling pointer flaws were found in
Thunderbird. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could 
cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with 
the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-2760, 
CVE-2010-2767, CVE-2010-3167, CVE-2010-3168)

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in Thunderbird. Remote HTML
content could cause Thunderbird to execute JavaScript code with the
permissions of different remote HTML content. (CVE-2010-2768)

Note: JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird. None of 
the above issues are exploitable unless JavaScript is enabled.

All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to 
take effect.

SL 4.x

      SRPMS:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.src.rpm
      i386:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-30.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

      SRPMS:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-8.el5.src.rpm
      i386:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-8.el5.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
thunderbird-2.0.0.24-8.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson