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Gentoo Linux: GLSA-201702-13 High Severity Mozilla Thunderbird Code Threat

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2017
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Arch Linux participants are urged to upgrade their Mozilla Thunderbird application immediately due to serious security flaws that could enable remote code execution.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity gentoo code execution mozilla thunderbird

Resolution

All Mozilla Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-45.7.0"
All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-45.7.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-5373 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5373 [ 2 ] CVE-2017-5375 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5375 [ 3 ] CVE-2017-5376 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5376 [ 4 ] CVE-2017-5378 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5378 [ 5 ] CVE-2017-5380 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5380 [ 6 ] CVE-2017-5383 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5383 [ 7 ] CVE-2017-5390 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5390 [ 8 ] CVE-2017-5396 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5396 [ 9 ] Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2017-03 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-03/

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-13
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: February 20, 2017
Bugs: #607310
ID: 201702-13

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity gentoo code execution mozilla thunderbird

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-client/thunderbird < 45.7.0 >= 45.7.0 2 mail-client/thunderbird-bin < 45.7.0 >= 45.7.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages

Impact

===== A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted email or web page, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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