Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3233-1
24th March, 2017
thunderbird vulnerabilities
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 version:
- 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
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.