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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                       MDVSA-2009:217-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : mozilla-thunderbird
Date    : August 23, 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 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:
e1c540f94c8b66fa4495de6015ed85db  \
2009.1/i586/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.i586.rpm   \
ab2fa7586f21de2f23216def8c542db6  \
2009.1/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64:
b9ff59f0c11d63a1234365ea55ed5f46  \
2009.1/x86_64/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.x86_64.rpm   \
ab2fa7586f21de2f23216def8c542db6  \
2009.1/SRPMS/mozilla-thunderbird-moztraybiff-1.2.4-4.1mdv2009.1.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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