1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1925-1

USN-1925-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Publication date

7 August 2013

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Releases

Packages

  • thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details

Jeff Gilbert and Henrik Skupin discovered multiple memory safety issues
in Thunderbird. If the user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
message with scripting enabled, an attacker could possibly exploit these
to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird.
(CVE-2013-1701)

It was discovered that a document’s URI could be set to the URI of
a different document. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks. (CVE-2013-1709)

A flaw was discovered when generating a CRMF request in certain
circumstances. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker could
potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks,
or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...

Jeff Gilbert and Henrik Skupin discovered multiple memory safety issues
in Thunderbird. If the user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
message with scripting enabled, an attacker could possibly exploit these
to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird.
(CVE-2013-1701)

It was discovered that a document’s URI could be set to the URI of
a different document. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks. (CVE-2013-1709)

A flaw was discovered when generating a CRMF request in certain
circumstances. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker could
potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks,
or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-1710)

Cody Crews discovered that some Javascript components performed security
checks against the wrong URI, potentially bypassing same-origin policy
restrictions. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker could exploit
this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or install addons
from a malicious site. (CVE-2013-1713)

Federico Lanusse discovered that web workers could bypass cross-origin
checks when using XMLHttpRequest. If a user had scripting enabled, an
attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting
(XSS) attacks. (CVE-2013-1714)

Georgi Guninski and John Schoenick discovered that Java applets could
access local files under certain circumstances. If a user had scripting
enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential
data. (CVE-2013-1717)

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
13.04 raring thunderbird –  17.0.8+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1
12.10 quantal thunderbird –  17.0.8+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
12.04 precise thunderbird –  17.0.8+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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