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Ubuntu 10.10 Security Advisory: USN-1122-1 Critical: Thunderbird Threat

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2011
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Security flaws in Thunderbird for Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 allow for arbitrary code execution when users open specially designed emails.
Thunderbird could be made to run programs as your login if it opened specially crafted mail.

Summary

Thunderbird could be made to run programs as your login if it opened

specially crafted mail.

Software Description:

- thunderbird: mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support

Details:

It was discovered that there was a vulnerability in the memory handling of

certain types of content. An attacker could exploit this to possibly run

arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-0081)

It was discovered that Thunderbird incorrectly handled certain JavaScript

requests. If JavaScript were enabled, an attacker could exploit this to

possibly run arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird.

(CVE-2011-0069)

Ian Beer discovered a vulnerability in the memory handling of a certain

types of documents. An attacker could exploit this to possibly run

arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-0070)

Bob Clary, Henri Sivonen, Marco Bonardo, Mats Palmgren and Jesse Ruderman

discovered several memory vulnerabilities. An attacker ...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 10.10:
  thunderbird                     3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2011-0065, CVE-2011-0066, CVE-2011-0067, CVE-2011-0069,

CVE-2011-0070, CVE-2011-0071, CVE-2011-0072, CVE-2011-0073,

CVE-2011-0074, CVE-2011-0075, CVE-2011-0077, CVE-2011-0078,

CVE-2011-0080, CVE-2011-0081, CVE-2011-1202

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May 05, 2011

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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