Ubuntu: 17.04 USN-3278-1 Moderate: Thunderbird Security Threats

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May 16, 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 message, an attacker could

potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial of

service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5429,

CVE-2017-5430, CVE-2017-5436, CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5445,

CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5461, CVE-2017-5467)

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 spoof the addressbar

contents, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, cause a denial of

service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5432,

CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5434, CVE-2017-5435, C...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue cross-site scripting arbitrary code execution ubuntu thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04:
  thunderbird                     1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1

Ubuntu 16.10:
  thunderbird                     1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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