Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0078 (thunderbird)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0078: Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerability 
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Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:06:46 +0100
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MGASA-2016-0078 - Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Feb 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0078.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-1930,
     CVE-2016-1935,
     CVE-2016-1521,
     CVE-2016-1522,
     CVE-2016-1523,
     CVE-2016-1526

Description:
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web
page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
running Thunderbird (CVE-2016-1930, CVE-2016-1935).

Multiple security flaws were found in the graphite2 font library bundled
with Thunderbird. A web page containing malicious content could cause
Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running Thunderbird (CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522,
CVE-2016-1523, CVE-2016-1526).

Thunderbird includes a bundled copy of the graphite2 library, which has
been updated in Thunderbird 38.6.0.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17781
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0057/
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0058/
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0059/
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0060/
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0061/
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/02/vulnerability-spotligh...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa201...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa201...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa201...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilit...
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0071.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0197.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg001...
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1930
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1935
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1521
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1522
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1523
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1526

SRPMS:
- 5/core/thunderbird-38.6.0-1.mga5
- 5/core/thunderbird-l10n-38.6.0-1.mga5