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HistoryJan 07, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

icedove - several vulnerabilities

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10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.963 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.3%

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.

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.963 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.3%

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