Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-943-1)
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 47618
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
Martin Barbella discovered an integer overflow in an XSLT node sorting routine. An attacker could exploit this to overflow a buffer and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-1199)
An integer overflow was discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into viewing malicious content, an attacker could overflow a buffer and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2010-1196)
Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine of Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-1200, CVE-2010-1201, CVE-2010-1202, CVE-2010-1203)
If was discovered that Thunderbird could be made to access freed memory. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2010-1121).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.