Ubuntu 12.10: 1758-3 Moderate: Firefox Security Vulnerability

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March 13, 2013

Thunderbird could be made to crash or run programs as your login.

Summary

Thunderbird could be made to crash or run programs as your login.

Software Description:

- thunderbird: Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details:

USN-1758-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the

corresponding update for Thunderbird.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Firefox contained a memory safety issue. If a user

were tricked into opening a specially crafted page with the HTML editor, a

remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the

privileges of the user invoking the program.

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate ubuntu thunderbird memory safety program execution crash

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
  thunderbird                     17.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     17.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  thunderbird                     17.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     17.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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