[CentOS] [security] Thunderbird vulnerable to MITM

Mon Aug 24 17:10:30 UTC 2015
Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>


On 08/24/2015 04:07 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 08:05 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote:
>> Thunderbird has a MITM vulnerability with its otherwise rather groovy
>> auto-configuration feature.
>>
>> The problem is that it makes requests via HTTP to retrieve the auto
>> configuration information.
>>
>> This allows a black hat (e.g. the NSA) to modify the results sent to the
>> client, and the client has no way to verify the results have not been
>> tampered with.
>
> Thank you for pointing out this vulnerability. However,
> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-apps-thunderbird seems like a
> more appropriate place to discuss your concerns. I doubt Red Hat will
> address this issue without upstream involvement and I'm sure CentOS will
> not.
>
> Regards,
> Leonard.
>

Done, thank you. And I found the following two bugzilla IDs :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664633 (2011)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=971347 (2014)