Ubuntu 12.10 USN-1620-2 Moderate: Thunderbird XSS Threat Mitigated

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October 30, 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-1620-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the

corresponding updates for Thunderbird. Please note that Thunderbird is only

affected by window.location issues through RSS feeds and extensions that

load web content.

Original advisory details:

Mariusz Mlynski and others discovered several flaws in Firefox that allowed

a remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

(CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195)

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud discovered a flaw in the way Firefox handled the

Location object. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted

page, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass security protections

and perform cross-origin reading of the Location object. (CVE-2012-4196)

Topics Covered

security advisory software update Ubuntu mail client Thunderbird XSS issue

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
  thunderbird                     16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  thunderbird                     16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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