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TITLE:
Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20382

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20382/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/2637/
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.x
http://secunia.com/product/9735/
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4652/

DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Thunderbird, which can
be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting and HTTP response
smuggling attacks, and potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information, see vulnerabilities #1, #2, #3, #5, #6, #7, and
#9 in:
SA20376

Successful exploitation of some of the vulnerabilities requires that
JavaScript is enabled (not enabled by default).

The following vulnerability has also been reported:

The vulnerability is caused due to a double-free error within the
processing of large VCards with invalid base64 characters. This may
be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.0.4.
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Masatoshi Kimura

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-40.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA20376:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20376/

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