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Bug 145615

Summary: CAN-2005-0149 Mail responds to cookie requests
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: mozillaAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 3.0CC: security-response-team
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Whiteboard: impact=important,public=20050120
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-20 02:31:01 UTC
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Mozilla Security Advisory MSA05-011
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Title:      Mail responds to cookie requests
Severity:   High
Reporter:   Michiel van Leeuwen

Fixed in:   Thunderbird 1.0
            Mozilla Suite 1.7.5

Vulnerable: Thunderbird 0.6 - 0.9
            Mozilla Suite 1.7 - 1.7.3


Description
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Mozilla mail clients from March to December 2004 responded to cookie
requests accompanying content loaded over HTTP, ignoring the setting
of the preference "network.cookie.disableCookieForMailNews" (disabled
cookies are the default in mail).

Cookies in mail (especially spam) could be used to track people.


Workaround
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Set the mail client not to load remote content at all (the default
setting in Thunderbird, the "View as Simple text" option in the Mozilla Suite).
Upgrade to the fixed version


References
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267263

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-01-20 02:31:55 UTC
This issue should affect RHEL2.1

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-03-23 19:01:44 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html