Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-2360-2

USN-2360-2: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Publication date

24 September 2014

Overview

Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Releases

14.04 LTS 12.04

Packages

thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details

USN-2360-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Thunderbird.

Original advisory details:

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled
parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA
certificates.

USN-2360-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Thunderbird.

Original advisory details:

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled
parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA
certificates.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
14.04 trusty	thunderbird – 1:31.1.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 precise	thunderbird – 1:31.1.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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References

CVE-2014-1568

CVE-2014-1568