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TITLE:
Gentoo update for mozilla-thunderbird

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22274

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22274/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for mozilla-thunderbird. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct man-in-the-middle attacks, bypass certain security
restrictions, and potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA21939

SOLUTION:
All Mozilla Thunderbird users should update to:
"mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.7" or later.

All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should update to:
"mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.5.0.7" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200610-01.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA21939:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21939/

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