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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2373-1 Moderate: Thunderbird Security Concerns

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Security Alert USN-2373-1 addresses various vulnerabilities within Thunderbird and offers instructions for necessary updates.
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:

Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen and Jon

Coppeard 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-2014-1574)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during CSS manipulation. If a

user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, 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-2014-1576)

Holger Fuhrmannek discovered an out-of-bounds read with Web Audio. If a

user were tricke...

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Ubuntu privacy issue arbitrary code application crash Thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:31.2.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:31.2.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2373-1

CVE-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1576, CVE-2014-1577, CVE-2014-1578,

CVE-2014-1581, CVE-2014-1585, CVE-2014-1586

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October 15, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Ubuntu privacy issue arbitrary code application crash Thunderbird

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.2.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.2.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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