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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-217

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-217
Posted Oct 8, 2009
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-217-2 - A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. The previous mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff packages had the wrong release which prevented it to be upgraded. The new packages addresses this problem.

tags | advisory, vulnerability
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2009-2408
SHA-256 | 5d153e895d2c4dc83174535c48a54a3e25b1eb3bc4bd5b2021de6a9d2f438c6e

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-217

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:217-2
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : mozilla-thunderbird
Date : October 8, 2009
Affected: 2009.1
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Problem Description:

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla
Thunderbird:

Security issues in thunderbird could lead to a man-in-the-middle
attack via a spoofed X.509 certificate (CVE-2009-2408).

A vulnerability was found in xmltok_impl.c (expat) that with
specially crafted XML could be exploited and lead to a denial of
service attack. Related to CVE-2009-2625.

This update provides the latest version of Thunderbird which are not
vulnerable to these issues.

Update:

The previous mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff packages had the wrong
release which prevented it to be upgraded (#53129). The new packages
addresses this problem.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2408
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280615
https://qa.mandriva.com/53129
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 2009.1:
8129678451e9e36da6d95a2ce3a694ab 2009.1/i586/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.2mdv2009.1.i586.rpm
229bb034c2f1e741bd8f11419ae1aefe 2009.1/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.2mdv2009.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64:
f69e7801185436e47737979d0651f445 2009.1/x86_64/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.2mdv2009.1.x86_64.rpm
229bb034c2f1e741bd8f11419ae1aefe 2009.1/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.2mdv2009.1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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