DSA-2556-1 icedove -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2556-1 icedove -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

07 Oct 2012

Affected Packages:

icedove

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-1970, CVE-2012-1972, CVE-2012-1973, CVE-2012-1974, CVE-2012-1975, CVE-2012-1976, CVE-2012-3959, CVE-2012-3962, CVE-2012-3969, CVE-2012-3972, CVE-2012-3978.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Icedove, Debian's version of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and news client.

This includes several instances of use-after-free and buffer overflow issues. The reported vulnerabilities could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, and additionally to the bypass of content-loading restrictions via the location object.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.11-1+squeeze13.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 10.0.7-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 10.0.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your icedove packages.