USN-3321-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

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 cause a denial of service,
read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5472,
CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7750, CVE-2017-7751, CVE-2017-7752, CVE-2017-7754,
CVE-2017-7756, CVE-2017-7757, CVE-2017-7758, CVE-2017-7764)

Multiple security issues were discovered in the Graphite 2 library used
by 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, read uninitialized memory, or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-7771, CVE-2017-7772, CVE-2017-7773, CVE-2017-7774, CVE-2017-7775,
CVE-2017-7776, CVE-2017-7777, CVE-2017-7778)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.04

• thunderbird - 1:52.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1

Ubuntu 16.10

• thunderbird - 1:52.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• thunderbird - 1:52.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• thunderbird - 1:52.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-5470
• CVE-2017-5472
• CVE-2017-7749
• CVE-2017-7750
• CVE-2017-7751
• CVE-2017-7752
• CVE-2017-7754
• CVE-2017-7756
• CVE-2017-7757
• CVE-2017-7758
• CVE-2017-7764
• CVE-2017-7771
• CVE-2017-7772
• CVE-2017-7773
• CVE-2017-7774
• CVE-2017-7775
• CVE-2017-7776
• CVE-2017-7777
• CVE-2017-7778

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