Ubuntu Security Notice USN-382-1

21st November, 2006

mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
• Ubuntu 5.10

Details

USN-352-1 fixed a flaw in the verification of PKCS certificate
signatures. Ulrich Kuehn discovered a variant of the original attack
which the original fix did not cover. (CVE-2006-5462)

Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute
arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a
malicious email containing JavaScript. Please note that JavaScript is
disabled by default for emails, and it is not recommended to enable it.
(CVE-2006-5463, CVE-2006-5464, CVE-2006-5747, CVE-2006-5748)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 6.10:

mozilla-thunderbird 1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.10

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

mozilla-thunderbird 1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06

Ubuntu 5.10:

mozilla-thunderbird 1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.5.10

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Thunderbird to
effect the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2006-5462, CVE-2006-5463, CVE-2006-5464, CVE-2006-5747, CVE-2006-5748