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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3073-1
September 22, 2016
thunderbird vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary:
Thunderbird could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious message.
Software Description:
– thunderbird: Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client
Details:
Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew
McCreight, and Phil Ringnalda discovered multiple memory safety issues in
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 via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2836)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3073-1
CVE-2016-2836
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
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