Safer and better: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.7
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 has been released via the AutoUpdate function, as well as a standalone download.
The version is a maintenance release which brings enhancements to the program’s stability and security.
The latest JavaScript-related vulnerabilities have been patched, along with memory corruption issues and other flaws.
See the changelog below for more information.
*** WHAT’S NEW IN MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD 1.5.0.7 ***
- Improvements to product stability
- Security fixes:
MFSA 2006-64 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.7)
MFSA 2006-63 JavaScript execution in mail via XBL
MFSA 2006-60 RSA Signature Forgery
MFSA 2006-59 Concurrency-related vulnerability
MFSA 2006-58 Auto-Update compromise through DNS and SSL spoofing
MFSA 2006-57 JavaScript Regular Expression Heap Corruption
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*** MORE DETAILED CHANGELOG ***
Crashes: (2)
Fixed: 339518 – Switching IMAP folders while “mark-as-spam” is running causes a crash
Fixed: 336957 – Crash when calling messageServiceFromURI(“file://…”).streamMessage
Networking: (3)
Fixed: 222394 – IMAP: MYRIGHTS command used on names marked \Noselect
Fixed: 325379 – STARTTLS negotiation skipped when account set to “TLS, if available”
Fixed: 349929 – APOP information is reset after stepping up a TLS connection
Printing: (1)
Fixed: 342439 – printing certain urls (google groups and maps) from print preview shows the style/meta tags on paper
UI improvements: (1)
Fixed: 337815 – Messages don’t show; summary-file increases every time Tb opens
XULRunner: (2)
Fixed: 348781 – Add 7-Zip SFX source to the tree
Fixed: 349007 – Trunk XULRunner doesn’ t package with modern PackageMaker
Miscellaneous fixes: (2)
Fixed: 344694 – Conflict of linkage-specification for “MimeExternalObjectClass mimeExternalObjectClass”
Fixed: 346302 – Yet another RFC 2231 violation (0x2a is not escaped)
Mac-specific: (1)
Fixed: 345047 – [XULRunner] Universal Build fixup for XULRunner
*** RELEVANT LINKS ***
Download Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 for Windows (.exe installer, English, 6MB, md5=490E29716FF3FF0323589FBDB79E00C2)
Download Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 for Mac OS X (.dmg, Universal Binary, English, 17.7MB)
Download Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 for Linux (.tar.gz, English, 10.1MB)
Download Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 for your operating system (.exe installer, defaults to your language, if build available)
Download Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 for your operating system (.exe installer, choose the desired language)