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Ubuntu 13.04: USN-1952-1 Critical: Thunderbird Memory Issues

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Explore various enhancements in security for Thunderbird on Ubuntu 13.04 and LTS focused on resolving significant vulnerabilities.
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:

Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user

were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting

enabled, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of

service via application crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code with

the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-1718)

Atte Kettunen discovered a flaw in the HTML5 Tree Builder when interacting

with template elements. If a user had scripting enabled, in some

circumstances an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute

arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird.

(CVE-2013-1720)

Alex Chapman discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in the ANGLE

library. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially

exploit this to execute arbitrary code...

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security advisory critical issue code execution application crash ubuntu thunderbird memory safety

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.04:
  thunderbird                     1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  thunderbird                     1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1952-1

CVE-2013-1718, CVE-2013-1720, CVE-2013-1721, CVE-2013-1722,

CVE-2013-1724, CVE-2013-1725, CVE-2013-1728, CVE-2013-1730,

CVE-2013-1732, CVE-2013-1735, CVE-2013-1736, CVE-2013-1737,

CVE-2013-1738, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1224912

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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