USN-2330-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2330-1

11th September, 2014

thunderbird vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS


• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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 discovered that memory is not initialized properly during

GIF rendering in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening

a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to

steal confidential information. (CVE-2014-1564)

Holger Fuhrmannek discovered an out-of-bounds read in Web Audio. 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 steal confidential information.

(CVE-2014-1565)

A use-after-free was discovered during text layout in some circumstances.

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-2014-1567)

Update instructions

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

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

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://bit.ly/1aJDvTw.

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make

all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2014-1553, CVE-2014-1562, CVE-2014-1563, CVE-2014-1564, CVE-2014-1565, CVE-2014-1567

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://bit.ly/1xQspMs