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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3490-1
December 01, 2017
thunderbird vulnerabilities
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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 versions:
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
After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.
References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3490-1
CVE-2017-7826, CVE-2017-7828, CVE-2017-7830
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
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