Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove
mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail client. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:
- CVE-2008-0016
Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer
overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead to the execution
of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-37)
- CVE-2008-1380
It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine could
potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-20)
- CVE-2008-3835
“moz_bug_r_a4” discovered that the same-origin check in
nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could be bypassed. (MFSA 2008-38)
- CVE-2008-4058
“moz_bug_r_a4” discovered a vulnerability which can result in
Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)
- CVE-2008-4059
“moz_bug_r_a4” discovered a vulnerability which can result in
Chrome privilege escalation through XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)
- CVE-2008-4060
Olli Pettay and “moz_bug_r_a4” discovered a Chrome privilege
escalation vulnerability in XSLT handling. (MFSA 2008-41)
- CVE-2008-4061
Jesse Ruderman discovered a crash in the layout engine, which might
allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-42)
- CVE-2008-4062
Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski and Antoine Labour
discovered crashes in the Javascript engine, which might allow the
execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-42)
- CVE-2008-4065
Dave Reed discovered that some Unicode byte order marks are
stripped from Javascript code before execution, which can result in
code being executed, which were otherwise part of a quoted string.
(MFSA 2008-43)
- CVE-2008-4067
It was discovered that a directory traversal allows attackers to
read arbitrary files via a certain character. (MFSA 2008-44)
- CVE-2008-4068
It was discovered that a directory traversal allows attackers to
bypass security restrictions and obtain sensitive information.
(MFSA 2008-44)
- CVE-2008-4070
It was discovered that a buffer overflow could be triggered via a
long header in a news article, which could lead to arbitrary code
execution. (MFSA 2008-46)
- CVE-2008-4582
Liu Die Yu and Boris Zbarsky discovered an information leak through
local shortcut files. (MFSA 2008-47, MFSA 2008-59)
- CVE-2008-5012
Georgi Guninski, Michal Zalewski and Chris Evan discovered that
the canvas element could be used to bypass same-origin
restrictions. (MFSA 2008-48)
- CVE-2008-5014
Jesse Ruderman discovered that a programming error in the
window.__proto__.__proto__ object could lead to arbitrary code
execution. (MFSA 2008-50)
- CVE-2008-5017
It was discovered that crashes in the layout engine could lead to
arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-52)
- CVE-2008-5018
It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine could lead to
arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-52)
- CVE-2008-5021
It was discovered that a crash in the nsFrameManager might lead to
the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-55)
- CVE-2008-5022
“moz_bug_r_a4” discovered that the same-origin check in
nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() could be bypassed.
(MFSA 2008-56)
- CVE-2008-5024
Chris Evans discovered that quote characters were improperly
escaped in the default namespace of E4X documents. (MFSA 2008-58)
- CVE-2008-5500
Jesse Ruderman discovered that the layout engine is vulnerable to
DoS attacks that might trigger memory corruption and an integer
overflow. (MFSA 2008-60)
- CVE-2008-5503
Boris Zbarsky discovered that an information disclosure attack could
be performed via XBL bindings. (MFSA 2008-61)
- CVE-2008-5506
Marius Schilder discovered that it is possible to obtain sensible
data via a XMLHttpRequest. (MFSA 2008-64)
- CVE-2008-5507
Chris Evans discovered that it is possible to obtain sensible data
via a JavaScript URL. (MFSA 2008-65)
- CVE-2008-5508
Chip Salzenberg discovered possible phishing attacks via URLs with
leading whitespaces or control characters. (MFSA 2008-66)
- CVE-2008-5511
It was discovered that it is possible to perform cross-site scripting
attacks via an XBL binding to an “unloaded document.” (MFSA 2008-68)
- CVE-2008-5512
It was discovered that it is possible to run arbitrary JavaScript
with chrome privileges via unknown vectors. (MFSA 2008-68)
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1. Packages for
s390 will be provided later.
For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) these problems will be
fixed soon.
For the unstable (sid) distribution these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.0.19-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your icedove packages.