USN-1758-2: Thunderbird vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details

USN-1758-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the
corresponding update for Thunderbird.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Firefox contained a memory safety issue. If a user
were tricked into opening a specially crafted page with the HTML editor, a
remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking the program.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10

• thunderbird - 17.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• thunderbird - 17.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10

• thunderbird - 17.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• thunderbird - 17.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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

References

• CVE-2013-0787

Related notices

• USN-1758-1: firefox