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Benoit Jacob, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Bill McCloskey, Brian Smith, Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Chris Jones, Brad Lassey, and Kyle Huey discovered memory safety issues affecting Thunderbird. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-1948, CVE-2012-1949) Abhishek Arya discovered four memory safety issues affecting Thunderbird. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-1951, CVE-2012-1952, CVE-2012-1953, CVE-2012-1954) Mariusz Mlynski discovered that the address bar may be incorrectly updated. Calls to history.forward and history.back could be used to navigate to a site while the address bar still displayed the previous site. A remote attacker could exploit this to conduct phishing attacks. (CVE-2012-1955) Mario Heiderich discovered that HTML &lt embed&gt tags were not filtered out of the HTML &lt description&gt of RSS feeds. A remote attacker could exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via javascript execution in the HTML feed view. (CVE-2012-1957) Arthur Gerkis discovered a use-after-free vulnerability. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-1958) Bobby Holley discovered that same-compartment security wrappers (SCSW) could be bypassed to allow XBL access. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit this to execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-1959) Tony Payne discovered an out-of-bounds memory read in Mozilla's color management library (QCMS). If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted color profile, an attacker could possibly exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash. (CVE-2012-1960) Fr&#233 d&#233 ric Buclin discovered that the X-Frame-Options header was ignored when its value was specified multiple times. An attacker could exploit this to conduct clickjacking attack ... Description truncated, for more information please check the Reference URL

thunderbird on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS , Ubuntu 11.10 , Ubuntu 11.04 , Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001763.html

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