Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2603-1
18th May, 2015
thunderbird vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 15.04
- Ubuntu 14.10
- 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
Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, and Steve Fink 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-2015-2708)
Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during the rendering of SVG
content with certain CSS properties 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-2015-2710)
Scott Bell discovered a use-afer-free during the processing of text when
vertical text is enabled. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially
crafted message, 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-2015-2713)
Ucha Gobejishvili discovered a buffer overflow when parsing compressed XML
content. 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-2015-2716)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 15.04:
-
thunderbird
1:31.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
thunderbird
1:31.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
thunderbird
1:31.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
thunderbird
1:31.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.