Synopsis:	Critical: thunderbird security update

Issue date:	2011-03-01

CVE Names:	CVE-2010-1585 CVE-2011-0053 CVE-2011-0061

                   CVE-2011-0062



Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML content.

Malicious HTML content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially,

execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running 

Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-1585, CVE-2011-0053, CVE-2011-0062)



A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled malformed JPEG images. 

An HTML mail message containing a malicious JPEG image could cause

Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the

privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-0061)



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

take effect.



SL 6.x



      SRPMS:

thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.src.rpm

      i386:

thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.i686.rpm

      x86_64:

thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.x86_64.rpm



-Connie Sieh

-Troy Dawson