Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-297-3)

USN-297-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Thunderbird for the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS release. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 5.04 and Ubuntu 5.10. For reference, these are the details of the original USN : Jonas Sicking discovered that under some circumstances persisted XUL...

Privilege escalation using addSelectionListener — Mozilla

Web content could access the nsISelectionPrivate interface of the Selection object and use it to add a SelectionListener. The listener would be called when the user did a "Find" on the page or a "select all", and as intended this shouldn't cause any problems. But as with escaping the PAC sandbox ...