1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2673-1

USN-2673-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Publication date

20 July 2015

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Releases

Packages

  • thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details

Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state
transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to
perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to skip
the ServerKeyExchange message and remove the forward-secrecy property.
(CVE-2015-2721)

Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Bobby Holley, and Andrew McCreight discovered
multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, 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-2015-2724)

Ronald Crane discovered multiple security vulnerabilities. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context,
an...

Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state
transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to
perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to skip
the ServerKeyExchange message and remove the forward-secrecy property.
(CVE-2015-2721)

Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Bobby Holley, and Andrew McCreight discovered
multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, 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-2015-2724)

Ronald Crane discovered multiple security vulnerabilities. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context,
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-2015-2734, CVE-2015-2735,
CVE-2015-2736, CVE-2015-2737, CVE-2015-2738, CVE-2015-2739, CVE-2015-2740)

Matthew Green discovered a DHE key processing issue in NSS where a MITM
could force a server to downgrade TLS connections to 512-bit export-grade
cryptography. An attacker could potentially exploit this to impersonate
the server. (CVE-2015-4000)

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
15.04 vivid thunderbird –  1:31.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
14.10 utopic thunderbird –  1:31.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
14.04 trusty thunderbird –  1:31.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 precise thunderbird –  1:31.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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