Slackware alert SSA:2008-128-02 (mozilla)
| From: | Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com> | |
| To: | slackware-security@slackware.com | |
| Subject: | [slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2008-128-02) | |
| Date: | Wed, 7 May 2008 20:53:40 -0700 (PDT) | |
| Message-ID: | <Pine.LNX.4.63.0805072053090.31675@bob.slackware.com> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2008-128-02) New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues, including crashes that can corrupt memory, as well as a JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution flaw. More details about these issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabil... http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1233 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1234 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1235 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1236 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1237 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-2.0.0.14. This upgrade fixes some more security bugs. For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabil... (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 10.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patc... Updated package for Slackware 11.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patc... Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patc... Updated package for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patc... Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/s... MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 10.2 package: 6b7959fe16dc8ffe11e8ed9fcdfeb8b9 mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14-i686-1.tgz Slackware 11.0 package: 6b7959fe16dc8ffe11e8ed9fcdfeb8b9 mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14-i686-1.tgz Slackware 12.0 package: 6b7959fe16dc8ffe11e8ed9fcdfeb8b9 mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14-i686-1.tgz Slackware 12.1 package: 6b7959fe16dc8ffe11e8ed9fcdfeb8b9 mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14-i686-1.tgz Slackware -current package: 6b7959fe16dc8ffe11e8ed9fcdfeb8b9 mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14-i686-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14-i686-1.tgz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security@slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To leave the slackware-security mailing list: | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Send an email to majordomo@slackware.com with this text in the body of | | the email message: | | | | unsubscribe slackware-security | | | | You will get a confirmation message back containing instructions to | | complete the process. Please do not reply to this email address. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkgieK8ACgkQakRjwEAQIjPIGwCeLlJzwqbgwuRkfMb1w9xx6kpI N3AAoJLM4vUKsbEJPxrLE9sZGpc7t4RK =zqw2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----