RHSA-2008:0908Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

Published
October 1, 2008
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (12)

CVE-2008-0016 →CVE-2008-3835 →CVE-2008-4058 →CVE-2008-4059 →CVE-2008-4060 →CVE-2008-4061 →CVE-2008-4062 →CVE-2008-4065 →CVE-2008-4066 →CVE-2008-4067 →CVE-2008-4068 →CVE-2008-4070 →

📋 Description

CVE-2008-0016 — Mozilla UTF-8 stack buffer overflow CVE-2008-3835 — mozilla: nsXMLDocument:: OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation CVE-2008-4058 — Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution CVE-2008-4059 — Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution CVE-2008-4060 — Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution CVE-2008-4061 — Mozilla layout engine crash CVE-2008-4062 — Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption CVE-2008-4065 — Mozilla BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution CVE-2008-4066 — Mozilla low surrogates stripped from JavaScript before execution CVE-2008-4067 — resource: traversal vulnerability CVE-2008-4068 — recource: bypass CVE-2008-4070 — Thunderbird cancelled newsgrop messages

🎯 Affected products48

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • thunderbird-0:2.0.0.17-1.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • thunderbird-0:2.0.0.17-1.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • thunderbird-0:2.0.0.17-1.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • thunderbird-0:2.0.0.17-1.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • thunderbird-0:2.0.0.17-1.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • thunderbird-0:2.0.0.17-1.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • +18 more not shown

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

🔗 References (15)