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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2360-2 Moderate: Thunderbird Certificate Flaws

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2014
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Enhance Mozilla Thunderbird by applying updates that address risks associated with counterfeit security certificates, facilitating more secure web browsing in Ubuntu.
Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Summary

Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to

be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Software Description:

- thunderbird: Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details:

USN-2360-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the

corresponding updates for Thunderbird.

Original advisory details:

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled

parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA

certificates.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Ubuntu security flaw Thunderbird certificate issue

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:31.1.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:31.1.2+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-2360-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2360-1

CVE-2014-1568

September 24, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Ubuntu security flaw Thunderbird certificate issue

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.1.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.1.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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