Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a 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-2013-1718)
Atte Kettunen discovered a flaw in the HTML5 Tree Builder when interacting with template elements. If a user had scripting enabled, in some circumstances an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird.
(CVE-2013-1720)
Alex Chapman discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in the ANGLE library. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-1721)
Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free in the Animation Manager. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacked could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-1722)
Scott Bell discovered a use-after-free when using a select element. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-1724)
It was discovered that the scope of new Javascript objects could be accessed before their compartment is initialized. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-1725)
Dan Gohman discovered that some variables and data were used in IonMonkey, without being initialized, which could lead to information leakage.
(CVE-2013-1728)
Sachin Shinde discovered a crash when moving some XBL-backed nodes in to a document created by document.open(). If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2013-1730)
Aki Helin discovered a buffer overflow when combining lists, floats and multiple columns. If a user had scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-1732)
Two memory corruption bugs when scrolling were discovered. If a user had scripting enabled, 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-201 ...
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Affected
thunderbird on Ubuntu 13.04 ,
Ubuntu 12.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-1718, CVE-2013-1720, CVE-2013-1721, CVE-2013-1722, CVE-2013-1724, CVE-2013-1725, CVE-2013-1728, CVE-2013-1730, CVE-2013-1732, CVE-2013-1735, CVE-2013-1736, CVE-2013-1737, CVE-2013-1738 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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