Synopsis:          Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2013:1823-1
Issue Date:        2013-12-11
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2013-5609
                    CVE-2013-5612
                    CVE-2013-5614
                    CVE-2013-5616
                    CVE-2013-5618
                    CVE-2013-6671
                    CVE-2013-5613
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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-2013-5609, CVE-2013-5616, CVE-2013-5618, CVE-2013-6671,
CVE-2013-5613)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird rendered web content with missing
character encoding information. An attacker could use this flaw to
possibly bypass same-origin inheritance and perform cross site-scripting
(XSS) attacks. (CVE-2013-5612)

It was found that certain malicious web content could bypass restrictions
applied by sandboxed iframes. An attacker could combine this flaw with
other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-5614)

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-24.2.0-2.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
     thunderbird-debuginfo-24.2.0-2.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
   i386
     thunderbird-24.2.0-2.el5_10.i386.rpm
     thunderbird-debuginfo-24.2.0-2.el5_10.i386.rpm


- Scientific Linux Development Team