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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: USN-3073-1 Critical: Thunderbird Memory Safety Threat

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Thunderbird could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious message.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3073-1
September 22, 2016

thunderbird vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Thunderbird could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious message.

Software Description:
- thunderbird: Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details:

Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew
McCreight, and Phil Ringnalda discovered multiple memory safety issues in
Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2836)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3073-1
  CVE-2016-2836

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1


Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: USN-3073-1 Critical: Thunderbird Memory Safety Threat

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Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-3073-1 pertains to vulnerabilities in Thunderbird that might enable code execution or result in application crashes.
Thunderbird could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious message.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: thunderbird 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: thunderbird 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: thunderbird 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3073-1

CVE-2016-2836

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September 22, 2016

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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