Sun Alert 269468 Security Vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird Related to SSL Certificates May Cause Arbitrary Code Execution
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolarisSecurity vulnerabilities in thunderbird(1) related to handling of SSL server certificates may allow remote SSL servers with crafted server certificates to compromise an encrypted communication or cause arbitrary code execution with the privileges of a Thunderbird user. The following Mozilla advisories describe the vulnerabilities:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-43.html Additional references: CVE-2009-2404 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2404 CVE-2009-2408 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2408 State: PreliminaryFirst released: 09-Oct-2009Sun Alert Link: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-269468-1

Product: Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolaris

Security vulnerabilities in thunderbird(1) related to handling of SSL server certificates
may allow remote SSL servers with crafted server certificates to compromise an encrypted
communication or cause arbitrary code execution with the privileges of a Thunderbird user.

The following Mozilla advisories describe the vulnerabilities:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-43.html


Additional references:

CVE-2009-2404 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2404

CVE-2009-2408 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2408



State: Preliminary
First released: 09-Oct-2009

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