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Released on 27 Jul 06, and this changelog was last updated on 28 Jul 06.
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 has been released. Release notes are available. This post lists the improvements in Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 over 1.5.0.4. This list encompasses almost every single known fix that went into this release. Do check out the known issues as well.
The Gecko 1.8.0.x branch (Thunderbird 1.5.0.x series) will only bring stability and security bug fixes. As such, no new features will be added.
Impact key for security issues listed on the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories webpage:
- Critical: Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.
- High: Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions.
- Moderate: Vulnerabilities that would otherwise be High or Critical except they only work in uncommon non-default configurations or require the user to perform complicated and/or unlikely steps.
- Low: Minor security vulnerabilities such as Denial of Service attacks, minor data leaks, or spoofs. (Undetectable spoofs of SSL indicia would have “High” impact because those are generally used to steal sensitive data intended for other sites.)
Changes in 1.5.0.5: (26)
Security issues: (11)
- Fixed: 339740 - Heap buffer overwrite on malformed VCard (Critical)
- Fixed: 284219, 329900, 331679, 331883, 336162, 337462, 338129, 338391, 340733 - Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.5) (Moderate)
- Fixed: 320982, 342507, Secunia Advisory 19873 - Memory corruption with simultaneous events (Moderate)
- Fixed: 324117, 325425, 336409, 336410, 338001, 338121, 338804, 339785, 340129, 341877, 341956, 342960 - JavaScript engine vulnerabilities (Moderate)
- Fixed: 337389 - PAC privilege escalation using Function.prototype.call (Moderate)
- Fixed: 338288 - Code execution through deleted frame reference (Moderate)
- Fixed: 338523 - XSS with XPCNativeWrapper(window).Function(…) (Moderate)
- Fixed: 340107 - UniversalBrowserRead privilege escalation (Moderate)
- Fixed: 340727 - Privilege escalation using named-functions and redefined “new Object()” (Moderate)
- Fixed: 344759, 344960 - JavaScript new Function race condition (Moderate)
- Fixed: 339918, 343594 - Native DOM methods can be hijacked across domains (Low)
Crash: (1)
- Fixed: 340882 - [XPToolkit] Invalid pointer in RemoveWindowListeners
Address book: (1)
- Fixed: 334947 - freeze if drop vCard with base64 encoded photo
Attachment-related: (1)
- Fixed: 338859 - even if the attachment file name has 0×2f, it’s not escaped
Build configuration: (3)
- Fixed: 324483 - Ah Crap! takes too long
- Fixed: 339875 - ship ga-IE for 1.5.0.5
- Fixed: 343157 - unit test dirs are included in final packages
Functionality: (3)
- Fixed: 314009 - Draft messages not deleted when Send Later used
- Fixed: 337052 - Reactivate WarpCenter biff functionality in nsMessengerOS2Integration
- Fixed: 342167 - In <EditorOverride.css>, 2 “Warning: Expected pseudo-element but found ‘-moz-XYZ’. Ruleset ignored due to bad selector.”
UI improvements: (1)
- Fixed: 342784 - File > Quit hangs tb if expunge inbox on exit is set
XPToolkit: (1)
- Fixed: 339213 - Software update fails because XULRunner doesn’t ship updater.ini
Mac-specific: (3)
- Fixed: 322578 - Support ppc<->x86 cross builds for Mac OS X
- Fixed: 327037 - Newsgroup names over-abbreviated on UB Mac
- Fixed: 340071 - pasting html from ff 1.5.0.4 into compose window in tb 1.5.0.4 doesn’t paste anything
Sun-specific: (1)
- Fixed: 322450 - TARGET_XPCOM_ABI not set in solaris builds
BlogZiNet | 28-Jul-06 at 5:48 am | Permalink
Mozilla Firefox et Thunderbird 1.5.0.5
Thunderbird va lui aussi voir une version 1.5.0.5 corriger ces problËmes de sÈcuritÈ. Ils ne sont pas jugÈs critiques pour Thunderbird car le JavaScript y est dÈsactivÈ par dÈfaut et fortement dÈconseillÈ ‡ rÈactiver. Cependant, un problËme spÈcifique…
Alexander | 28-Jul-06 at 7:52 pm | Permalink
Try to view a message with 200 attachments (yes, such messages are possible).
The attachments part of the message window is not resizable and thus if there are really many attachments, the attachments part occupies the whole
screen and there is no way to see the message.
In my opinion, the attachments part of the message window must be limited in maximum height and should have a scroll bar.
Andrew | 28-Jul-06 at 11:59 pm | Permalink
The scroll bar for the contact list on Thunderbird is always obscured and requires the user to reduce the size of active write/compose window in order to
reveal thr scroll bar for the contacts window.
This problem has existed for ever and needs to be fixed!
Warren Thompson | 29-Jul-06 at 11:39 pm | Permalink
Problem: Since Friday, 28 July 06 I cannot connect to Thunderbird. Each time I try, I receive a message saying “Could not connect to server 127.0.0.1. Connection refused.”
Can anyone tell me what’s going on?
Bob Rohrer | 29-Jul-06 at 11:55 pm | Permalink
Installed latest update and my address book still has an annoying delay every time it opens. It did not used to be this way. I am on XP with a fast machine. Address book is local and should open instantly. Don’t know what I did to change function. There are lots of confusing directions in Google and I don’t want to mess anything up — least of all my address book!
kaizer | 30-Jul-06 at 7:16 pm | Permalink
I’ve got the same annoying delay. It takes about 5 minuets to get the addressbook up. And the same time with the address autocomplete option. It takes forever! I’m with a 2.8GHz processor with 1Gb Ram.
I tried disabling the “TB change from and FCC on compose…” extention but it makes no difference.
Mike | 01-Aug-06 at 5:34 pm | Permalink
When the search results window is larger than one page (with scroll bars), then date sorting only works for the visible entries. Those outside the window are not sorted.
orin | 01-Aug-06 at 11:30 pm | Permalink
Still hasn’t fixed the eml crash issue when opening eml files
Don Dillin | 02-Aug-06 at 2:31 pm | Permalink
Feature Request:
Need ability to EDIT the subject of any email item in the Inbox and then be able to save that email with the revised (edited) subject field. This feature has been available in Outlook for 10 years, since Outlook 97, and is invaluable for later search and retrieval of messages when the original “Subject” field was null or insufficient. This is a critical functionality deficiency in head-to-head comparisons with Outlook, when T-Bird is so rich in other feature areas.
Thanks
Blade | 03-Aug-06 at 11:14 pm | Permalink
The attachment save and open very low!
A.O. | 04-Aug-06 at 3:12 am | Permalink
Bug since 0.6.
Every 10th (I didn’t count really, but it seems nearby 10) Forward crashes Thunderbird.
Filter is limited to nearby 600 entries? After adding more, Thunderbird looses older ones.
A sorting function or a provement if a filter has been set before would be nice. Combinations of AND and OR in a filter would be helpful to reduce the number of filters for one site.
Integration of gpg4win is not very comfortable.
After upgrading from 1.0.6 to 1.5.0.4 I had to add the complete mailadress (i.e. instead of mailto:jack because jack is an alias in our central mailserver, I had to write: jack@mailserver. That is uncomfortable and not amusing.
A second choice instead only mailbox should be maildir format. This increases the speed and simplifies virus scans.
Thanks.
Dave | 04-Aug-06 at 11:20 pm | Permalink
With update of 1.5.0.5, all my email messages have changed to plain text. New HTML messages all appear as plain text. When sending bold, underlined messages, receiver gets message as plain text.
Mike Cowperthwaite | 11-Aug-06 at 3:47 am | Permalink
Not mentioned in the list of fixes that made it into 1.5.0.5:
340055: enable compatible extensions on downgrade
If you have an extension that works under 1.5, is disabled due to “incompatibility” when running any higher version, and then you fall back to 1.5.0.4, that extension will remain disabled, requiring explicit user enable + restart.
With 1.5.0.5 (and 2a1, etc), the extension will be re-enabled automatically.
T.B. | 11-Aug-06 at 3:56 am | Permalink
With imaps folders, emptying a large trash folder (>1000 messages) then compacting folders seems to corrupt the preferences/configuration. I must delete prefs.js & redefine all imap accounts to restore the system. (Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC; tb 1.5.0.5)
Alfred Frei | 13-Aug-06 at 4:08 pm | Permalink
Hello
Since I have installed this new version 1.5.x.x, it is not possible to send mail with this smtp server: mail.bluewin.ch (provider: bluewin.ch). With Version 1.0.x.x I had no problems.
What happens?
Thanks for an information.
Anonymous | 14-Aug-06 at 6:35 pm | Permalink
The attachment problem is still there. The attachment symbol (the zip, MSword, pdf etc symbol) is sometimes not shown. When a mail (mail1) has another mail (mail2) attached together with other attachments and mail2 is opened, the other attachments of mail1 are shown as attached in mail2 as well and when selected nothing happens. I hope that the bug of ver 1.5.0.4 in which when a mail with attachments was forwarded the attachment was sometimes changing type (eg a word doc was sent in an unknown format), is corrected in 1.5.0.5
CJ | 17-Aug-06 at 1:27 am | Permalink
I am using Windows XP (home) Since I upgraded to the newest version of Thunderbird (1.5.0.5) I have lost my Rich Text tool bar. (i.e. — bold, italics, underline, font color, font size, font style, smilies, etc.)
I have downloaded and reinstalled Thunderbird vs 1.5.0.5, but still nothing. How do I go about getting the Rich Text toolbar to appear again?
Thank you,
CJ
John Moentmann | 17-Aug-06 at 9:56 am | Permalink
In using mozilla thunderbird I can not receive my in-mail. I keep getting the message that my inbox is full which is not true.
I’ve cleaned everything out of my system and reinstalled and still get the same message.
Help!
mikey | 18-Aug-06 at 11:19 am | Permalink
I can visibley watch, at times, my in box suddenly make a dramtic increase to the “count” in the inbox. For instance, it is now showing that I have well over 12,000+ items in the inbox. So times, it reduces count to a much lower #, but alas, very soon it is back to a huge count. I cannot find a way to “cleanse” / delete mail inbox with deleting each message one by one. When I scroll thru messages the are maybe a couple of hundred there…WUZZUP HERE???
Darryl Wohlt | 19-Aug-06 at 12:40 am | Permalink
I filter incoming messages that are not from fnal.gov into a “purgatory” folder. Under 1.5.0.5, when I click the folder and there’s only one message in there, its text appears in the message area but its subject/sender/date entry is gone from the [whatever it's called] area. So I can’t select the message to move it or delete it.
luis | 19-Aug-06 at 6:19 am | Permalink
hi, i try to create a new acount in the thunderbird mail but it do not let me do that, my question is about how can i do to check my email from windows live mail and this run correctly…
en espaÒol
hola, mi ingles es pesimo por lo que vieron arriba asi que si alguien puede ayudarme le agradeceria mucho, baje su sofware de mail thunderbird y este me parecio muy amigable por lo que leÌ, asi que intente acceder a su uso con mi cuenta de windows live mail, la cual es chano_77@hotmail.com pero este no me deja porque me dice que mail.live.com rechasa la ejecucion, asi que les agradeceria me echaran la mano en este asunto, se despide de ustedes un agradecido usuario de su buen explorador mozilla firefox…………………..
death y trash para siempre…