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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

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)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service ubuntu thunderbird memory safety

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service ubuntu thunderbird memory safety

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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