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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2250-1 Critical: Thunderbird DoS Issues

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Important notice concerning security flaws in Thunderbird on Ubuntu. Updates focus on rectifying memory integrity and possible Denial of Service situations.
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:

Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de

Mooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden and Kyle Huey discovered multiple

memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening

a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could

potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application

crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking

Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1533)

Abhishek Arya discovered multiple use-after-free and out-of-bounds read

issues in Thunderbird. If a user had enabled scripting, an attacker could

potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application

crash or execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking

Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1538)

A use-after-free was discovered in the SMIL a...

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 13.10:
  thunderbird                     1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:24.6.0+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-2250-1

CVE-2014-1533, CVE-2014-1538, CVE-2014-1541, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1328003

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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