==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-978-1 September 08, 2010
thunderbird vulnerabilities
CVE-2010-2760, CVE-2010-2763, CVE-2010-2764, CVE-2010-2765,
CVE-2010-2766, CVE-2010-2767, CVE-2010-2768, CVE-2010-2769,
CVE-2010-3166, CVE-2010-3167, CVE-2010-3168, CVE-2010-3169
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
thunderbird 3.0.7+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Several dangling pointer vulnerabilities were discovered in Thunderbird. An
attacker could exploit this to crash Thunderbird or possibly run arbitrary
code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-2760, CVE-2010-2767,
CVE-2010-3167)
It was discovered that the XPCSafeJSObjectWrapper (SJOW) security wrapper
did not always honor the same-origin policy. If JavaScript was enabled, an
attacker could exploit this to run untrusted JavaScript from other domains.
(CVE-2010-2763)
Matt Haggard discovered that Thunderbird did not honor same-origin policy
when processing the statusText property of an XMLHttpRequest object. If a
user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could
use this to gather information about servers on internal private networks.
(CVE-2010-2764)
Chris Rohlf discovered an integer overflow when Thunderbird processed the
HTML frameset element. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious
site, a remote attacker could use this to crash Thunderbird or possibly run
arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-2765)
Several issues were discovered in the browser engine. If a user were
tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to
crash Thunderbird or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2010-2766, CVE-2010-3168)
David Huang and Collin Jackson discovered that the
Ubuntu 978-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
September 8, 2010
Several dangling pointer vulnerabilities were discovered in Thunderbird