Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201605-21
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Severity: Critical
Date    : 2016-05-15
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-2804 CVE-2016-2805 CVE-2016-2806 CVE-2016-2807
Package : thunderbird
Type    : arbitrary code execution
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
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The package thunderbird before version 45.1.0-1 is vulnerable to
arbitrary code execution.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 45.1.0-1.

# pacman -Syu "thunderbird>=45.1.0-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 45.1.0.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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- CVE-2016-2804:

Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Boris Zbarsky, and Steve
Fink reported memory safety problems and crashes.

- CVE-2016-2805:

Christian Holler reported a memory safety problem.

- CVE-2016-2806:

Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Carsten
Book, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, and Randell Jesup reported memory
safety problems and crashes.

- CVE-2016-2807:

Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, and Phil Ringalda reported memory safety
problems and crashes.

Impact
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A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on the affected host.

References
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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-39/
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2804
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2805
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2806
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2807