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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2009.1391.3
Security Vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird Related to SSL
Certificates May Cause Arbitrary Code Execution
18 December 2009
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Thunderbird
Publisher: Sun Microsystems
Operating System: Solaris
OpenSolaris
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Reduced Security -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2009-2408 CVE-2009-2404
Reference: ASB-2009.1059
ASB-2009.1040.5
Original Bulletin:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-66-269468-1
Revision History: December 18 2009: Updated patch numbers in Resolution
October 27 2009: Sun has added solutions for Solaris 10
October 13 2009: Initial Release
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Article ID : 269468
Article Type : Sun Alert
Last reviewed : 2009-12-16
Audience : PUBLIC
Keywords :
Copyright Notice: Copyright © 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights
Reserved
Security Vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird Related to SSL
Certificates May Cause Arbitrary Code Execution
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Category : Security
Release Phase : Resolved
Bug Id : 6880677, 6899624
Product : Solaris 10 Operating System
OpenSolaris
Date of Resolved Release : 16-Dec-2009
Security Vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird Related to SSL Certificates:
1. Impact
Security vulnerabilities in thunderbird(1) related to handling of SSL
server certificates
may allow remote SSL servers with crafted server certificates to
compromise an encrypted
communication or cause arbitrary code execution with the privileges of
a Thunderbird user.
The following Mozilla advisories describe the vulnerabilities:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-43.html
Additional references:
CVE-2009-2404 at
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2404
CVE-2009-2408 at
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2408
2. Contributing Factors
These issues can occur in the following releases:
SPARC platform
* Solaris 10 without patch 125541-06
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_48 through snv_124
x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 without patch 125542-06
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_48 through snv_124
Note 1: Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 do not ship Thunderbird and therefore
are not affected by these issues.
Note 2: Thunderbird first shipped with Solaris 10 Update 4 (8/07) in
the SUNWthunderbird package.
Systems are only impacted by this issue if SUNWthunderbird is
installed on the system.
To determine if SUNWthunderbird is installed use :
$ pkginfo SUNWthunderbird
Note 3: OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes
above and beyond the build
from which it was derived. The base build can be derived as follows:
$uname -a
SunOS hostname 5.11 snv_86 i86pc i386 i86pc
3. Symptoms
There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described
issues have been exploited.
4. Workaround
There are no workarounds for this issue. Please refer to resolution
section below.
5. Resolution
These issues are addressed in the following releases:
SPARC platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 125541-06 or later
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_125 or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 125542-06 or later
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_125 or later
For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Technical Instruction
ID 213557:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-213557-1
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