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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2330-1 Critical: Thunderbird Security Threats

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2014
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Numerous security flaws resolved in Firefox for Ubuntu enhancing memory integrity and mitigating risks of service interruption.
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:

Jan de Mooij, Christian Holler, Karl Tomlinson, Randell Jesup, Gary Kwong,

Jesse Ruderman and JW Wang 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-2014-1553, CVE-2014-1562)

Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free during DOM interactions with

SVG. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message

with scripting enabled, 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-2014-1563)

Michal Zalewski ...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu security issues memory safety Thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:31.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:31.1.1+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-2330-1

CVE-2014-1553, CVE-2014-1562, CVE-2014-1563, CVE-2014-1564,

CVE-2014-1565, CVE-2014-1567

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September 11, 2014

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu security issues memory safety Thunderbird

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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