USN-1611-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details

Henrik Skupin, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Soroush Dalili and others
discovered several memory corruption flaws in Thunderbird. If a user were
tricked into opening a malicious website and had JavaScript enabled, an
attacker could exploit these to execute arbitrary JavaScript code within
the context of another website or arbitrary code as the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2012-3982, CVE-2012-3983, CVE-2012-3988, CVE-2012-3989,
CVE-2012-4191)

David Bloom and Jordi Chancel discovered that Thunderbird did not always
properly handle the element. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website and had JavaScript enabled, a remote attacker could exploit this to conduct URL spoofing and clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2012-3984) Collin Jackson discovered that Thunderbird did not properly follow the HTML5 specification for document.domain behavior. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website and had JavaScript enabled, a remote attacker could exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via JavaScript execution. (CVE-2012-3985) Johnny Stenback discovered that Thunderbird did not properly perform security checks on test methods for DOMWindowUtils. (CVE-2012-3986) Alice White discovered that the security checks for GetProperty could be bypassed when using JSAPI. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted web page and had JavaScript enabled, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-3991) Mariusz Mlynski discovered a history state error in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website and had JavaScript enabled, a remote attacker could exploit this to spoof the location property to inject script or intercept posted data. (CVE-2012-3992) Mariusz Mlynski and others discovered several flaws in Thunderbird that allowed a remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted page and had JavaScript enabled, a remote attacker could exploit these to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain. (CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-3994, CVE-2012-4184) Abhishek Arya, Atte Kettunen and others discovered several memory flaws in Thunderbird when using the Address Sanitizer tool. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website and had JavaScript enabled, an attacker could exploit these to execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the context of another website or execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-3990, CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179, CVE-2012-4180, CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182, CVE-2012-4183, CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186, CVE-2012-4187, CVE-2012-4188) It was discovered that Thunderbird allowed improper access to the Location object. An attacker could exploit this to obtain sensitive information. Under certain circumstances, a remote attacker could use this vulnerability to potentially execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-4192, CVE-2012-4193) Reduce your security exposure Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines. Learn more about Ubuntu Pro Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.04 thunderbird - 16.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 Ubuntu 11.10 thunderbird - 16.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 Ubuntu 11.04 thunderbird - 16.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 Ubuntu 10.04 thunderbird - 16.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2012-3982 CVE-2012-3983 CVE-2012-3984 CVE-2012-3985 CVE-2012-3986 CVE-2012-3988 CVE-2012-3989 CVE-2012-3990 CVE-2012-3991 CVE-2012-3992 CVE-2012-3993 CVE-2012-3994 CVE-2012-3995 CVE-2012-4179 CVE-2012-4180 CVE-2012-4181 CVE-2012-4182 CVE-2012-4183 CVE-2012-4184 CVE-2012-4185 CVE-2012-4186 CVE-2012-4187 CVE-2012-4188 CVE-2012-4191 CVE-2012-4192 CVE-2012-4193 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1062587 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1065292 Related notices USN-1600-1 USN-1608-1 Join the discussion Ubuntu security updates mailing list Security announcements mailing list Need help with your security needs? Ubuntu Pro provides up to ten-year security coverage for over 23,000 open-source packages within the Ubuntu Main and Universe repositories. Talk to an expert to find out what would work best for you Further reading Loading...

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