Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2273-1 icedove -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
06 Jul 2011
Affected Packages:
icedove
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-0085, CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-2365, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Icedove, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail/news client.

  • CVE-2011-0083 / CVE-2011-2363

    regenrecht discovered two use-after-frees in SVG processing, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2011-0085

    regenrecht discovered a use-after-free in XUL processing, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2011-2362

    David Chan discovered that cookies were insufficiently isolated.

  • CVE-2011-2371

    Chris Rohlf and Yan Ivnitskiy discovered an integer overflow in the Javascript engine, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2011-2373

    Martin Barbella discovered a use-after-free in XUL processing, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2011-2374

    Bob Clary, Kevin Brosnan, Nils, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman and Christian Biesinger discovered memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2011-2376

    Luke Wagner and Gary Kwong discovered memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

As indicated in the Lenny (oldstable) release notes, security support for the Icedove packages in the oldstable needed to be stopped before the end of the regular Lenny security maintenance life cycle. You are strongly encouraged to upgrade to stable or switch to a different mail client.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.11-1+squeeze3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.11-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your icedove packages.