USN-3545-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
USN-3545-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities thunderbird vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 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 cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5125, CVE-2018-5127, CVE-2018-5129, CVE-2018-5144, CVE-2018-5145, CVE-2018-5146) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 17.10 thunderbird – 1:52.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS thunderbird – 1:52.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS thunderbird – 1:52.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart [ more… ]