USN-3321-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3321-1
5th July, 2017
thunderbird vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 17.04
- Ubuntu 16.10
- 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,
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 version:
- 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 LTS:
-
thunderbird
1:52.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
thunderbird
1:52.2.1+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 Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.
References
Source: USN-3321-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
