Thunderbird Concern

[l.tambiah]

Tthe recent flaw in the Firefox browser also affects Mozilla Thunderbird. Mozilla have not addressed this issue of yet, but it needs to be done as soon as possible. More can be read about the flaw in Thunderbird here (http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171100282).

[billeman]

I realy hope they fix it. I find Thunderbird the best email client for Linux..

[aysiu]

I, too, hope they fix it as soon as possible, but the article says "if, for instance, a user is tricked into clicking on a "mailto:" link within a browser which uses Thunderbird as its default e-mail client (as Firefox does). Any Linux commands enclosed in backticks are executed."

It's simple--for now, don't click on any mailto links. I never do anyway, regardless of security flaws. I find mailto links annoying, and if you're worried about being "tricked" into clicking on one, don't visit any fishy websites.

[Zotova]

Well 1.0.7 is now out, so any news on when it will be available via apt-get?

[l.tambiah]

Yep i saw that mozilla has updated the email client for this purpose. I think Ubuntu shall patch the software in the next few days.....Lets hope so anyway....