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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-1254-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 57393
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
It was discovered that CVE-2011-3004, which addressed possible privilege escalation in addons, also affected Thunderbird 3.1. An attacker could potentially exploit a user who had installed an add-on that used loadSubscript in vulnerable ways. (CVE-2011-3647)Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that the Mozilla browser engine mishandled invalid sequences in the Shift-JIS encoding. It may be possible to trigger this crash without the use of debugging APIs, which might allow malicious websites to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this flaw this to steal data or inject malicious scripts into web content. (CVE-2011-3648)
Marc Schoenefeld discovered that using Firebug to profile a JavaScript file with many functions would cause Firefox to crash. An attacker might be able to exploit this without using the debugging APIs which would potentially allow an attacker to remotely crash Thunderbird.
(CVE-2011-3650).
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 thunderbird package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 57393
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1254-1.nasl
Version: 1.10
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 12/23/2011
Updated: 9/19/2019
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 6.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-3004, CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650
USN: 1254-1