| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'thunderbird' package(s) announced via the USN-958-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine of Thunderbird. If a
user were tricked into viewing malicious content, a remote attacker could
use this to crash Thunderbird or possibly run arbitrary code as the user
invoking the program. (CVE-2010-1211, CVE-2010-1212)
An integer overflow was discovered in how Thunderbird processed CSS values.
An attacker could exploit this to crash Thunderbird or possibly run
arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-2752)
An integer overflow was discovered in how Thunderbird interpreted the XUL
element. If a user were tricked into viewing malicious content, a remote
attacker could use this to crash Thunderbird or possibly run arbitrary code
as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-2753)
Aki Helin discovered that libpng did not properly handle certain malformed
PNG images. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted PNG file, an
attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-1205)
Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that the same-origin check in Thunderbird could
be bypassed by utilizing the importScripts Web Worker method. If a user
were tricked into viewing malicious content, an attacker could exploit this
to read data from other domains. (CVE-2010-1213)
Chris Evans discovered that Thunderbird did not properly process improper
CSS selectors. If a user were tricked into viewing malicious content, an
attacker could exploit this to read data from other domains.
(CVE-2010-0654)
Soroush Dalili discovered that Thunderbird did not properly handle script
error output. An attacker could use this to access URL parameters from
other domains. (CVE-2010-2754)
Affected Software/OS:
'thunderbird' package(s) on Ubuntu 10.04.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
9.3
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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