USN-3233-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• 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

• thunderbird - 1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• thunderbird - 1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• 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

• 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

Related notices

• USN-3216-1