Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mozilla-thunderbird announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:217-3.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:217-3 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html
Insight
A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird:
Security issues in thunderbird could lead to a man-in-the-middle attack via a spoofed X.509 certificate (CVE-2009-2408).
A vulnerability was found in xmltok_impl.c (expat) that with specially crafted XML could be exploited and lead to a denial of service attack. Related to CVE-2009-2625 (CVE-2009-3720).
This update provides the latest version of Thunderbird which are not vulnerable to these issues.
Update:
Packages for 2008.0 are being provided due to extended support for Corporate products.
Affected: 2008.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2408, CVE-2009-2625, CVE-2009-3720 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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