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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-2151-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73148

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Benoit Jacob, Olli Pettay, Jan Varga, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Dan Gohman and Christoph Diehl discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1493)

Atte Kettunen discovered an out-of-bounds read during WAV file decoding. If a user had enabled audio, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash.
(CVE-2014-1497)

Robert O'Callahan discovered a mechanism for timing attacks involving SVG filters and displacements input to feDisplacementMap. If a user had enabled scripting, an attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential information across domains. (CVE-2014-1505)

Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered an out-of-bounds read during polygon rendering in MathML. If a user had enabled scripting, an attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential information across domains. (CVE-2014-1508)

John Thomson discovered a memory corruption bug in the Cairo graphics library. If a user had a malicious extension installed, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1509)

Mariusz Mlynski discovered that web content could open a chrome privileged page and bypass the popup blocker in some circumstances. If a user had enabled scripting, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1510, CVE-2014-1511)

It was discovered that memory pressure during garbage collection resulted in memory corruption in some circumstances. If a user had enabled scripting, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1512)

Juri Aedla discovered out-of-bounds reads and writes with TypedArrayObject in some circumstances. If a user had enabled scripting, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1513)

George Hotz discovered an out-of-bounds write with TypedArrayObject.
If a user had enabled scripting, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird.
(CVE-2014-1514).

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2151-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73148

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2151-1.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2014

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Firefox WebIDL Privileged Javascript Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1497, CVE-2014-1505, CVE-2014-1508, CVE-2014-1509, CVE-2014-1510, CVE-2014-1511, CVE-2014-1512, CVE-2014-1513, CVE-2014-1514

BID: 66425

USN: 2151-1