Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: USN-1430-3 Moderate: Thunderbird Security Issues

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May 4, 2012

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:

USN-1430-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the

corresponding fixes for Thunderbird.

Original advisory details:

Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Brian Hackett, Bobby Holley, Gary Kwong,

Hilary Hall, Honza Bambas, Jesse Ruderman, Julian Seward, and Olli Pettay

discovered memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked

into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit these to

cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute

code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-0467,

CVE-2012-0468)

Aki Helin discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in XPConnect. An

attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the

privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-0469)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue software update Ubuntu thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     12.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  thunderbird                     12.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
  thunderbird                     12.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     12.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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