USN-3490-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

USN-3490-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3490-1

1st December, 2017

thunderbird vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 17.04
• 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-like
context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass same-origin
restrictions, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7826, CVE-2017-7828, CVE-2017-7830)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.10:

thunderbird

1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 17.04:

thunderbird

1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

thunderbird

1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

thunderbird

1:52.5.0+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 Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2017-7826,

CVE-2017-7828,

CVE-2017-7830

Source: USN-3490-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities