USN-998-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
20 October 2010
Thunderbird could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- thunderbird - mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support
Details
Paul Nickerson, Jesse Ruderman, Olli Pettay, Igor Bukanov, Josh Soref, Gary
Kwong, Martijn Wargers, Siddharth Agarwal and Michal Zalewski discovered
various flaws in the browser engine. An attacker could exploit this to
crash Thunderbird or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2010-3175, CVE-2010-3176)
Alexander Miller, Sergey Glazunov, and others discovered several flaws in
the JavaScript engine. If JavaScript were enabled, an attacker could
exploit this to crash Thunderbird or possibly run arbitrary code as the
user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-3179, CVE-2010-3180, CVE-2010-3183)
Eduardo Vela Nava discovered that Thunderbird could be made to violate the
same-origin policy by using modal calls with JavaScript. If JavaScript were
enabled, an attacker could exploit this to steal information from another
site. (CVE-2010-3178)
Dmitri GribenkoDmitri Gribenko discovered that Thunderbird did not properly
setup the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. A local attacker could
exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2010-3182)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04
After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make all
the necessary changes.