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Ubuntu 11.10 USN-1343-1 Moderate: Thunderbird Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey January 24, 2012
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A number of vulnerabilities were addressed in Firefox for Debian, impacting user privacy and software performance.
Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Software Description:

- thunderbird: Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details:

Alexandre Poirot, Chris Blizzard, Kyle Huey, Scoobidiver, Christian Holler,

David Baron, Gary Kwong, Jim Blandy, Bob Clary, Jesse Ruderman, Marcia

Knous, and Rober Longson discovered several memory safety issues which

could possibly be exploited to crash Thunderbird or execute arbitrary code

as the user that invoked Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-3660)

Aki Helin discovered a crash in the YARR regular expression library that

could be triggered by javascript in web content. (CVE-2011-3661)

It was discovered that a flaw in the Mozilla SVG implementation could

result in an out-of-bounds memory access if SVG elements were removed

during a DOMAttrModified event handler. An attacker could potentially

exploit this vulnerability to crash Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-3658)

Mario Heiderich discovered it was possible to use SVG animation a...

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu moderate threat user safety application crash memory safety Thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 11.10:
  thunderbird                     9.0+build2-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1343-1

CVE-2011-3658, CVE-2011-3660, CVE-2011-3661, CVE-2011-3663,

CVE-2011-3665, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/909599

January 24, 2012

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu moderate threat user safety application crash memory safety Thunderbird

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/9.0+build2-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

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