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Ubuntu: 11.04 USN-1150-1 critical: Thunderbird Memory Issues

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-5 addresses several vulnerabilities in VLC Media Player, impacting various versions. For further information, check the details.
Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed in Thunderbird.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed in Thunderbird.

Software Description:

- thunderbird: Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details:

Multiple memory vulnerabilities were discovered in the browser rendering

engine. An attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary code with

the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-2364,

CVE-2011-2365, CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376)

Martin Barbella discovered that under certain conditions, viewing a XUL

document while JavaScript was disabled caused deleted memory to be

accessed. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Thunderbird or

execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking

Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-2373)

Jordi Chancel discovered a vulnerability on multipart/x-mixed-replace

images due to memory corruption. An attacker could potentially use this to

crash Thunderbird or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user

invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-2377)

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 11.04:
  thunderbird                     3.1.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.10:
  thunderbird                     3.1.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     3.1.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1150-1

CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-0085, CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2363,

CVE-2011-2364, CVE-2011-2365, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-2373,

CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2377

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/3.1.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/3.1.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/3.1.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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