USN-2904-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
USN-2904-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2904-1 8th March, 2016 thunderbird vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird. Software description thunderbird – Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client Details Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that NSS incorrectlyallowed MD5 to be used for TLS 1.2 connections. If a remote attacker wereable to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited toview sensitive information. (CVE-2015-7575) Yves Younan discovered that graphite2 incorrectly handled certain malformedfonts. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website in abrowsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause adenial of service via application crash, or execute arbitary code with theprivileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2016-1523) Bob Clary, Christian Holler, [ more… ]