Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Slackware, which could be exploited by attackers to disclose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by errors in Mozilla Thunderbird. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2564 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-2667

Affected Products

Slackware 11.0
Slackware 12.0

Solution

Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.6-i686-1.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.6-i686-1.tgz

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2777
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.357837

ChangeLog

2007-08-06 : Initial release

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