Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1620-2
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
USN-1620-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Thunderbird. Please note that Thunderbird is only 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 allowed a remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
(CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195)
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 protections and perform cross-origin reading of the Location object. (CVE-2012-4196)
Affected
thunderbird on Ubuntu 12.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195, CVE-2012-4196 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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