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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: USN-2296-1 Critical: Thunderbird Memory Flaws

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2014
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A number of critical flaws addressed in Thunderbird for Ubuntu. Discover methods to fortify your setup with the newest upgrades.
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:

Christian Holler, David Keeler and Byron Campen 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-2014-1547)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow when interacting with WebAudio

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

exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute

arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird.

(CVE-2014-1549)

Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free in WebAudio. If a user had

enabled scripting, an attacker could potentially exploit this to ...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow arbitrary code execution Ubuntu memory safety Thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:31.0+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-2296-1

CVE-2014-1544, CVE-2014-1547, CVE-2014-1549, CVE-2014-1550,

CVE-2014-1552, CVE-2014-1555, CVE-2014-1556, CVE-2014-1557,

CVE-2014-1558, CVE-2014-1559, CVE-2014-1560, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1346007

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July 22, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow arbitrary code execution Ubuntu memory safety Thunderbird

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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