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Ubuntu 11.04: USN-1122-2 Moderate: Thunderbird Memory Flaws Exploited

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2011
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Mozilla Thunderbird displays significant security flaws on Ubuntu 11.04, potentially allowing unauthorized code execution. Immediate update is highly recommended.
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:

USN-1122-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Thunderbird for Lucid and Maverick.

This update provides the corresponding fixes for Natty.

Original advisory 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 u...

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update arbitrary code execution Ubuntu memory flaw Thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 11.04:
  thunderbird                     3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

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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security advisory moderate update arbitrary code execution Ubuntu memory flaw Thunderbird

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

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