thunderbird vulnerabilities

18 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 versions:

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.

References

• CVE-2015-2708
• CVE-2015-2710
• CVE-2015-2713
• CVE-2015-2716