USN-2360-2: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
24 September 2014
Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.
Releases
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-2360-1: firefox-locale-sr, firefox-locale-ga, firefox-locale-hsb, firefox-locale-eu, firefox-locale-pa, firefox-locale-sl, firefox-locale-en, firefox-locale-vi, firefox-locale-gu, firefox-locale-xh, firefox-locale-si, firefox-locale-an, firefox-locale-eo, firefox-locale-bg, firefox-locale-gl, firefox-locale-zu, firefox-locale-da, firefox-locale-th, firefox-locale-br, firefox-locale-ml, firefox-mozsymbols, firefox-locale-fa, firefox-locale-mai, firefox-locale-bn, firefox-locale-nl, firefox-locale-zh-hant, firefox-globalmenu, firefox-locale-ko, firefox-locale-hy, firefox-locale-sq, firefox-locale-es, firefox-locale-uk, firefox-locale-de, firefox-locale-hi, firefox-locale-km, firefox, firefox-locale-or, firefox-locale-ast, firefox-locale-pl, firefox-locale-lg, firefox-locale-ku, firefox-locale-sv, firefox-locale-pt, firefox-locale-csb, firefox-locale-ca, firefox-locale-sw, firefox-locale-mr, firefox-locale-lt, firefox-locale-zh-hans, firefox-locale-hr, firefox-locale-he, firefox-locale-sk, firefox-locale-mk, firefox-locale-ru, firefox-dev, firefox-locale-be, firefox-locale-ro, firefox-locale-lv, firefox-locale-id, firefox-locale-et, firefox-testsuite, firefox-locale-fr, firefox-locale-as, firefox-locale-it, firefox-locale-nso, firefox-locale-ms, firefox-locale-te, firefox-locale-nb, firefox-locale-tr, firefox-locale-nn, firefox-locale-kn, firefox-locale-ar, firefox-locale-ja, firefox-locale-fi, firefox-locale-fy, firefox-locale-hu, firefox-locale-cy, firefox-locale-el, firefox-locale-gd, firefox-locale-is, firefox-locale-mn, firefox-locale-ta, firefox-locale-ka, firefox-locale-bs, firefox-locale-oc, firefox-locale-af, firefox-locale-cs, firefox-locale-kk
- USN-2361-1: libnss3-dev, libnss3, libnss3-nssdb, libnss3-1d, nss, libnss3-tools