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Ubuntu 15.04 USN-2712-1 Critical: Thunderbird Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey August 25, 2015
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Numerous vulnerabilities addressed in Thunderbird impacting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS through 15.04. Discover the specifics and enhancements here.
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:

Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, and Byron Campen discovered multiple memory

safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a

specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to

cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code

with the privileges ofthe user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4473)

Ronald Crane reported 3 security issues. If a user were tricked in to

opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially

exploit these, in combination with another security vulnerability, to

cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary

code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4487,

CVE-2015-4488, CVE-2015-4489)

Gustavo Grieco discovered a heap overflow in gdk-pixbuf. If a user were

tricked in ...

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution DoS Ubuntu memory safety Thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  thunderbird                     1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.2

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2712-1

CVE-2015-4473, CVE-2015-4487, CVE-2015-4488, CVE-2015-4489,

CVE-2015-4491

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution DoS Ubuntu memory safety Thunderbird

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.2

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