Security Vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird Related to SSL Certificates:

1. Impact

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

2. Contributing Factors

These issues can occur in the following releases:

SPARC platform

• Solaris 10 without patch 125541-06
  
• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_48 through snv_124
  

x86 Platform

• Solaris 10 without patch 125542-06
• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_48 through snv_124
  

Note 1: Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 do not ship Thunderbird and therefore are not affected by these issues.

Note 2: Thunderbird first shipped with Solaris 10 Update 4 (8/07) in the SUNWthunderbird package.

Systems are only impacted by this issue if SUNWthunderbird is installed on the system.
To determine if SUNWthunderbird is installed use :

      $  pkginfo SUNWthunderbird

Note 3: OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the build
from which it was derived. The base build can be derived as follows:

	$uname -a
	SunOS hostname 5.11 snv_86 i86pc i386 i86pc

3. Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described issues have been exploited.

4. Workaround

There are no workarounds for this issue. Please refer to resolution section below.

5. Resolution

These issues are addressed in the following releases:

SPARC platform

• Solaris 10 with patch 125541-06 or later
  

• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_125 or later
    

x86 Platform

• Solaris 10 with patch 125542-06 or later
  

• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_125 or later

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Technical Instruction ID 213557:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-213557-1

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26-Oct-2009: Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections. Now Resolved.
27-Oct-2008: removed yesterday's updates. Resolution patch not available.
01-Dec-2009: Updated BugID field.
16-Dec-2009: Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections. Resolved.

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