Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3073-1
22nd September, 2016
thunderbird vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
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)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- 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
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.