Description: | Description: The remote host is missing an update to thunderbird announced via advisory USN-1050-1.
Details follow:
Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Olli Pettay, Gary Kwong, Jeff Walden, Henry Sivonen, Martijn Wargers, David Baron and Marcia Knous discovered several memory issues in the browser engine. An attacker could exploit these to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2011-0053, CVE-2011-0062)
Roberto Suggi Liverani discovered a possible issue with unsafe JavaScript execution in chrome documents. A malicious extension could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with chrome privlieges. (CVE-2010-1585)
Jordi Chancel discovered a buffer overlow in the JPEG decoding engine. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2011-0061)
Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: thunderbird 3.1.8+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
Ubuntu 10.10: thunderbird 3.1.8+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make all the necessary changes.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-1050-1
Risk factor : Critical
CVSS Score: 10.0
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