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Arch Linux: 201609-3 Urgent Warning for Thunderbird Code Execution Risk

Calendar Sep 04, 2016 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory critical arbitrary code execution thunderbird archlinux
The package thunderbird before version 45.3.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. 
Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201609-3
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Severity: Critical
Date    : 2016-09-04
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-2835 CVE-2016-2836
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 45.3.0-1 is vulnerable to
arbitrary code execution.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 45.3.0-1.

# pacman -Syu "thunderbird>=45.3.0-1"

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 45.3.0.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
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- CVE-2016-2835 (arbitrary code execution)

Carsten Book, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew
McCreight, Phil Ringnalda and Philipp reported memory safety problems
and crashes.

- CVE-2016-2836 (arbitrary code execution)

Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Byron Campen, and Julian
Seward 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/mfsa2016-62/
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2835
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2836