Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is updated to version 2.0.0.12 from 2.0.0.9, looks to be a bug fix release. It fixes 5 security issues among a host of other issues. Their official web log states that "The Gecko 1.8.1.x branch (Thunderbird 2.0.0.x series) will not include any groundbreaking features that Gecko 1.9 will bring, since it is based on Gecko 1.8. Additionally, in order to synchronize the version numbering with Firefox, 2.0.0.10 & 2.0.0.11 were dropped in favour of 2.0.0.12."
The following security issues have been fixed:
Security issues: (5)
- Fixed: MFSA 2008-12 – Heap buffer overflow in external MIME bodies (Critical)
- Fixed: MFSA 2008-01 – Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.12) (Moderate)
- Fixed: MFSA 2008-03 – Privilege escalation, XSS, Remote Code Execution (Moderate)
- Fixed: MFSA 2008-05 – Directory traversal via chrome: URI (Moderate)
- Fixed: MFSA 2008-07 – Possible information disclosure in BMP decoder (Low)
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