USN-1011-2: Thunderbird vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• thunderbird - mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support

Details

USN-1011-1 fixed a vulnerability in Firefox. This update provides the
corresponding update for Thunderbird.

Original advisory details:

Morten Krakvik discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox. If a
user were tricked into navigating to a malicious site, an attacker could
cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user
invoking the program.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10

• thunderbird - 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.3

Ubuntu 8.04

• thunderbird - 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2

Ubuntu 10.10

• thunderbird - 3.1.6+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• thunderbird - 3.0.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make all
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2010-3765

Related notices

• USN-1011-1: firefox-3.5, firefox, abrowser, firefox-3.0
• USN-1011-3: xulrunner-1.9.1, xulrunner-1.9.2