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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-958-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 47857
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
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).
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.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 47857
File Name: ubuntu_USN-958-1.nasl
Version: 1.18
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 7/27/2010
Updated: 9/19/2019
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 7.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:thunderbird-gnome-support, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:thunderbird-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:thunderbird-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:thunderbird
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2010
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2010
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2010-0654, CVE-2010-1205, CVE-2010-1211, CVE-2010-1212, CVE-2010-1213, CVE-2010-2752, CVE-2010-2753, CVE-2010-2754, CVE-2010-2760