Secunia Security Advisory - rPath has issued an update for thunderbird. This fixes a security issue and some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks, disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions and compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
rPath update for thunderbird
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29164
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29164/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of sensitive
information, DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
rPath Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/10614/
DESCRIPTION:
rPath has issued an update for thunderbird. This fixes a security
issue and some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious
people to conduct cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks,
disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security
restrictions and compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA27605
SA27725
SA28758
SA28808
SOLUTION:
Update to:
thunderbird=conary.rpath.com@rpl:1/2.0.0.12-0.1-1
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0093
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27605:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27605/
SA27725:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27725/
SA28758:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28758/
SA28808:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28808/
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