Critical ThunderBird Exploits Addressed in Ubuntu 16.10 USN-3233-1

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March 24, 2017

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Software Description:

- thunderbird: Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were

tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context,

an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass same origin

restrictions, obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via

application crash or hang, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5398,

CVE-2017-5400, CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5405,

CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410)

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical information disclosure thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
  thunderbird                     1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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