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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-915-1 March 18, 2010
thunderbird vulnerabilities
CVE-2009-0689, CVE-2009-2463, CVE-2009-3072, CVE-2009-3075,
CVE-2009-3077, CVE-2009-3376, CVE-2009-3983, CVE-2010-0163
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 9.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
thunderbird 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1

Ubuntu 8.10:
thunderbird 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1

Ubuntu 9.04:
thunderbird 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1

Ubuntu 9.10:
thunderbird 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1

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

Details follow:

Several flaws were discovered in the JavaScript engine of Thunderbird. If a
user had JavaScript enabled and were tricked into viewing malicious web
content, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2009-0689, CVE-2009-2463, CVE-2009-3075)

Josh Soref discovered that the BinHex decoder used in Thunderbird contained
a flaw. If a user were tricked into viewing malicious content, a remote
attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-3072)

It was discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage memory when
using XUL tree elements. If a user were tricked into viewing malicious
content, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2009-3077)

Jesse Ruderman and Sid Stamm discovered that Thunderbird did not properly
display filenames containing right-to-left (RTL) override characters. If a
user were tricked into opening a malicious file with a crafted filename, an
attacker could exploit this to trick the user into opening a different file
than the user expected. (CVE-2009-3376)

Takehiro Takahashi discovered flaws in the NTLM implementation in
Thunderbird. If an NTLM authenticated user opened content containing links
to a malicious website, a remote attacker could send requests to other
applications, authenticated as the user. (CVE-2009-3983)

Ludovic Hirlimann discovered a flaw in the way Thunderbird indexed certain
messages with attachments. A remote attacker could send specially crafted
content and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-0163)