Synopsis:          Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2013:0821-1
Issue Date:        2013-05-14
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2013-0801
                   CVE-2013-1670
                   CVE-2013-1674
                   CVE-2013-1675
                   CVE-2013-1676
                   CVE-2013-1677
                   CVE-2013-1678
                   CVE-2013-1679
                   CVE-2013-1680
                   CVE-2013-1681
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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-2013-0801, CVE-2013-1674, CVE-2013-1675, CVE-2013-1676,
CVE-2013-1677, CVE-2013-1678, CVE-2013-1679, CVE-2013-1680, CVE-2013-1681)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled Content Level
Constructors. Malicious content could use this flaw to perform cross-site
scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2013-1670)

Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially-crafted
HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages.
They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for example, when
viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.

After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes to
take effect.
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SL5
  x86_64
    thunderbird-17.0.6-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
    thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.6-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
  i386
    thunderbird-17.0.6-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
    thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.6-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
SL6
  x86_64
    thunderbird-17.0.6-2.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
    thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.6-2.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
  i386
    thunderbird-17.0.6-2.el6_4.i686.rpm
    thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.6-2.el6_4.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team