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Ubuntu 14.10: 2460-1 Critical: Thunderbird Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
This notification highlights significant vulnerabilities addressed in Thunderbird for Ubuntu, focusing on memory integrity issues and possible attack vectors.
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 and Patrick McManus 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-2014-8634)

Muneaki Nishimura discovered that requests from navigator.sendBeacon()

lack an origin header. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially

crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially

exploit this to conduct cross-site request forgery (XSRF) attacks.

(CVE-2014-8638)

Xiaofeng Zheng discovered that a web proxy returning a 407 response

could inject cookies in to the originally requested domain. If a user

connected to a m...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu thunderbird memory safety XSRF attack

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  thunderbird                     1:31.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:31.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:31.4.0+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-2460-1

CVE-2014-8634, CVE-2014-8638, CVE-2014-8639

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January 19, 2015

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu thunderbird memory safety XSRF attack

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:31.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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