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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3233-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3233-1
Posted Mar 24, 2017
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

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.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | 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
SHA-256 | 4abb70b1c35863ded49709995ba4e6d401e8550e183f3defde0d6a4363af7dad

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3233-1

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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


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