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.

References

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