Ubuntu 13.10: USN-2032-1 Critical: Thunderbird Denial Of Service

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November 21, 2013

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 security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were

tricked into connecting to a malicious server, an attacker could possibly

exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash,

potentially execute arbitrary code, or lead to information disclosure.

(CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-2566, CVE-2013-5605, CVE-2013-5607)

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10:
  thunderbird                     1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

Ubuntu 13.04:
  thunderbird                     1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  thunderbird                     1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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