| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'thunderbird' package(s) announced via the USN-1510-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
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 |
