Ubuntu Security Notice 3233-1 - 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.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3233-1
March 24, 2017
thunderbird vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 16.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
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)
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.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3233-1
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
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1