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[USN-1620-2] Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Posted on 30 October 2012
Ubuntu Security

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1620-2
October 30, 2012

thunderbird vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Software Description:
- thunderbird: Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details:

USN-1620-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Thunderbird. Please note that Thunderbird is on=
ly
affected by window.location issues through RSS feeds and extensions that
load web content.

Original advisory details:

Mariusz Mlynski and others discovered several flaws in Firefox that allo=
wed
a remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
(CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195)
=20
Antoine Delignat-Lavaud discovered a flaw in the way Firefox handled the=

Location object. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted=

page, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass security protection=
s
and perform cross-origin reading of the Location object. (CVE-2012-4196)=


Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10:
thunderbird 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
thunderbird 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
thunderbird 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
thunderbird 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make al=
l
the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1620-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1620-1
CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195, CVE-2012-4196, https://launchpad.net/bugs=
/1072362

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0=
=2E12.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0=
=2E12.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0=
=2E11.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0=
=2E10.04.1






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