USN-3073-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3073-1

22nd September, 2016

thunderbird vulnerabilities

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 version:

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

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2016-2836

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2dmNCct